The Noble Lie

One of the premises of this site is that the world is not as it appears. This is a self-evident fact for many people, and others can accept it, but they have to come to it gradually. Unfortunately, there are also a great number of people who will never accept it and who will resent you for taking them out of their comfort zones. In many ways, popular culture is a mass delusion projected to us by hidden faces, yet by our actions and our desire to belong, we willingly consent to and participate in these delusions.

I don’t pretend to know everything. I do know enough to know that the visible part of any story is just the tip, and like an iceberg, the bulk of the story remains hidden, beneath the surface, viewable only to those who know it’s there.

In recognition of that fact, my site addresses two basic “levels.”

1. Terra Cognita - Our known territory, this is the world as it is presented to us, and how we react to it. These are the white squares of the chessboard.
2. The Other Side - What happens behind closed doors and beneath the veil of secrecy. These are the black squares of the chessboard.

Naturally, the nature of “The Other Side” makes much of the discussion speculative. There is a difference between healthy speculation and wild speculation (a determination you have to learn to make for yourself), and it is a quality that is learned through careful research, study, and exposing one’s self to alternate viewpoints with a critical eye, an open ear, and a functioning memory of one’s own experiences. There is a voice within ourselves that we can train ourselves to listen to. Also, just because something isn’t talked about on television, in my mind does not make it speculation to discuss it if it is openly and plainly occurring anyway.

When talking about white and black, remember the difference between white magic and black magic is not that one is good and one is evil. Magicians have no use for the concepts of good and evil. White magic is done in the open and black magic is done under the cover of secrecy.