https://i.imgur.com/bLUQzXR.jpg In **Part One** (https://steemit.com/anarchy/@larkenrose/fake-experience-fake-reality-part-one) and **Part Two** (https://steemit.com/anarchy/@larkenrose/fake-experience-fake-reality-part-two) of this series, we looked at how Americans’ perceptions of the U.S. military and law enforcement are based largely upon what Americans “experience” by watching movies, TV shows and “news” broadcasts. When, for example, someone sees one show after another depicting cops as brave and virtuous protectors, those artificial “experiences” make people actually believe that police are like that. In the real world, they aren’t. But false impressions of reality go far beyond just the public perception of the military and police. In fact, the entire functioning and mechanism of “government” and “law,” as it really is, has almost nothing in common with the puppet show that is continually paraded in front of the general public. https://i.imgur.com/BfDGNJN.jpg For starters, the entire notion of politicians being “representatives” of the people, as if they are actually trying to serve the people, is provably false. People see the show that every politician puts on, talking to the rabble as if the politician “feels their pain,” trying to pretend to be “the common man,” with such lies constantly depicted in both campaigns and in television dramas. But the cold hard facts show the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig In fact, those who seek positions of power could hardly be any more obvious about the fact that when they say things in public, or on camera, they are *performing*, putting on a *show*, delivering a polished, scripted *presentation*. Indeed, it’s universally acknowledged that almost all politicians hire speech writers, which shows that those who seek power don’t even bother making up their own lies. Instead, they hire others to carefully calculate and craft a ***character*** who the candidate should ***pretend*** to be. And even knowing all that, the electorate still listens to the manipulative, deceptive sales pitches, and still thinks they are actually *experiencing* what that person really is, and really believes. https://i.imgur.com/edPlHez.jpg Then there is the process of “legislation,” whereby the ruling class makes up new commands and demands to be violently foisted upon the general public. And people will watch the “debates” in Congress, their eyes glued to CNN, to hear the well-reasoned and well-intentioned arguments, and to see how our honorable representatives will vote. And many of the viewers still believe they are actually watching decisions being made, and “policy” being decided. But once again, that is utter crap. The political parasites put on a show, as convincing as a play put on by fifth-graders, after everything has already been decided behind closed doors, after votes have been bought and sold using money and influence, and lobbyists have once again purchased political whores on both sides of the aisle. https://i.imgur.com/YWKvznM.jpg Then there is the “judicial branch” of the ruling class, which puts on a show of its own. When it comes to questions of constitutionality, a lot of people still believe the TV fairy tales about impartial judges objectively weighing facts and evidence, and applying the law equally to the best of their abilities. And again, that is an outright lie; a fable told to the masses to keep them complacent and compliant. As one example, it is common knowledge that FDR pretty much rigged the Supreme Court with “justices” who would fabricate excuses to uphold his obviously unconstitutional collectivist “New Deal” agenda. Of course, they had to keep pretending that they were “interpreting” the U.S. Constitution, when anyone with a shred of honesty knew damn well they were doing nothing of the sort. They were doing what lawyers do best: throwing nonsensical bullshit around in the hopes of serving the interests of the people who pay them. https://i.imgur.com/halJ36D.jpg One of the most amazing examples was the Supreme Court case of *Wickard v. Filburn* in which the court ruled (and I’m not making this up; feel free to Google it) that a farmer growing and consuming his own wheat, on his own property, could be federally regulated under the *interstate commerce* clause. In case you missed it, let me back up and emphasize this: the case was about a farmer growing wheat, ***not selling it***, ***consuming it himself, without it ever leaving his property***. And FDR’s dress-wearing puppets ruled, presumably with straight faces, that such activity can be regulated by the federal government because of the ***interstate commerce*** clause of the Constitution—despite the fact that such activity is not commerce, and is not interstate, in any way, shape or form. I was tempted to tell you their “rationale” for their conclusion, but it might be more fun for you to guess. What new heights of contorted bullshit do you think they had to dream up to justify that “ruling”? And guess what: that ruling still stands. It’s still a large part of the excuse for the federal government getting away with doing much of what it does today, despite no constitutional “authority” to do any of it. The point is, it is laughable for anyone to still think that the federal courts are independent and objective, or to imagine that the *show* they put on is at all genuine or honest. (As it happens, I have first-hand experience with how the U.S. court system treats someone they consider an enemy of the state. Several “judges,” at various stages and concerning different issues, made it glaringly obvious that in some cases, they know the outcome—they know who has to win to preserve the power of the state—and then they do whatever they have to to make that happen. For those who want the full infuriating story, I recently decided to give away my book about it, “Kicking the Dragon,” for free as an e-book: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cpanvpyzl60ciah/KickingTheDragon.epub?dl=0) https://i.imgur.com/1aPe9BD.jpg There are many other topics that could also be included as examples of how Americans are presented with a show, a facade, a false reality played out in front of them, day after day, which they eagerly watch as if they are experiencing reality, when they are doing nothing of the sort. Nothing having to do with “politics” is at all what Hollywood and the mainstream media portray it to be. Not even close. The fraud and theft which gets labelled “monetary policy” is another fine example. But for now, on that topic, I will simply mention what Henry Ford had to say about it: “*It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.*” https://i.imgur.com/qd0rB3d.jpg So what is the punchline here? Quite simply it is that ***everything*** the public is taught about “government”—what it is and how it functions—is a lie, start to finish. The fairy tales that the public sees in moves, television shows, and what passes for “news,” are 100% fake. So in one sense, Donald Trump is right when he says that much of what you see on television is “fake news.” The part that isn’t true is when he pretends that he isn’t just one more piece of that fake news, playing his part as just another puppet in a performance that has one, and only one, purpose: to keep several hundred million people duped and distracted enough that they continue to pay tribute to a ruling class, and continue to obey the arbitrary whims of political crooks, and keep on empowering the malicious, intrusive, oppressive, deadly agendas of political sociopaths. And what is the solution? To believe your own eyes. Turn off the steady stream of mind-numbing slave-training and fear-mongering. Stop allowing your captors to feed you their propaganda, day in and day out. Stop volunteering to “experience” a bogus reality in which we mere mortals are all weak, untrustworthy, stupid, nasty and violent, and in which it is only by the good graces of our benevolent political masters and their valiant enforcers that civilization and peaceful coexistence are possible. **Because that is bullshit. Always has been, always will be.** https://i.imgur.com/welZUj8.jpg - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Larken Rose is a speaker, author and activist, having advocated the principles of non-aggression, self-ownership and a stateless, voluntary society for over twenty years. Donations to help support his articles, videos and other projects can be made by PayPal to "larken@larkenrose.com" or by Bitcoin to 13xVLRidonzTHeJCUPZDaFH6dar3UTx5js.)