[ WP ] `` And that was the first of the three lies ... ''

When the children were in school, they had been taught many things, among them that people are naturally good. 
 
 That was the first of three lies, an unholy trinity to brainwash the youths so that they could not understand what their world truly was. 
 
 Many of them could not understand, when they found older history books, why so many people had killed other people if everybody was good. To remedy this, history books were made illegal. In their stead, history was rewritten; rather, it was sanitized, so that it fit into what the world should have been. 
 
 Eventually, the children forgot about the history books. If any child happened to ask about those texts, the other children would belittle that child for making up stories that simply could n't be true. 
 
 And thus was the first of three lies taught. In reality, people are not naturally good. They do not crave altruism and sleeping in the dust with their brethren, nor do they only tell the truth; no, they crave control and lofty palaces, and they weave their societies from a fabric of falsehoods. 
 
 But in the world the Teachers created, that truth was replaced and eventually forgotten. 
 
 The second lie was that this generation of children, the one educated by the Teachers, was the single most important one Earth would ever know. 
 
 Many of the children were too young to understand the sentiment behind this lie, and blindly accepted that they were the future. 
 
 Obviously, this was false. If everybody is naturally good, than who can be bettered? For, if one generation is better than its predecessor, than its predecessor is worse. And if it is worse, than it is bad. 
 
 So, this lie contradicts the first lie. There is no `` generation of the future.'' Every generation is simply that: *a* generation, to lead the next into an endlessly stagnant and perfectly propagandized future. 
 
 The third lie was the greatest of them all. 
 
 The third lie was meant to instill fear. The third lie was this: somewhere out there in the great cosmos, a planet much like their own existed, but everyone there was naturally *bad*. 
 
 Of course, there is no such thing as a parallel earth, or at least one that is accessible or even visible to us. However, this did not stop the Teachers from spreading their version of the truth. 
 
 As the tale goes, this alternate earth is filled with bad, terrible people, who murder each other for money, who are proud of their laziness, who can not even think about their fellow man without being overcome with consuming envy. 
 
 Of course, this planet does not exist. At least, not in the way that the Teachers have envisioned it. 
 
 The planet they speak of, filled with all these terrible people, is ours. 
 
 And is our planet naturally good? That is debatable. But certainly, it is not naturally bad. 
 
 Although we may steal, and fight, and kill, we possess something infinitely more powerful and beautiful than they do: progress. 
 
 That is what makes us naturally bad to them, progress, and it is what differentiates us. That we desire something better, that we dare believe that our world is not perfect: to them, this is heresy. 
 
 So, we will continue to make progress, and they will stagnate. They will continue to teach their lies, without realizing the great irony of it all. 
 
 Their world is manufactured from lies. It is not real. It is a fabrication, carefully maintained by people who are not really naturally good. 
 
 That is the lie that the children are not taught in their schools. 
 
 That is the fourth of three lies. But the children will only ever know three. 
 
 Because that is what the Teachers will continue to preach. 
 
 And everybody knows that education is naturally good. 
 
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 *If you read the whole thing, please feel free to critique this. It's one of the oddest things I've written, and I think it's somewhat preachier than I intended. All constructive criticism is welcome. *
