Have you ever thought about the things you truly possess in your life? If you were asked to name a few things that you own, you would have no trouble listing some. It doesn’t even have to be material possessions; could be your personality, your character, your ideas, your memories. At this level of granularity, we should surely possess A LOT OF things, shouldn’t we? As you may have already guessed from the title of this blog post, by the end of this post you might get convinced otherwise; that all the things you think you own may very well be the things that are made up by your mind. Let me tell you why.

I would like to argue that almost everything in our lives has fakeness to varying extents. Let’s start with the somewhat obvious examples first. Do you think TV news genuinely reflects what’s happening out there in the wild? Okay, this was way too easy. Let me give another one. Do you think your neighbors truly mean it when they say they are sorry for your loss? Do you think your boss truly means it when they say you are a family? I’ll keep going. Do you think that your friends or family members are always telling you the truth without intentionally hiding any details? Do you think that a person without any agenda or interest can exist in this life? Do you believe a person when they claim to be a good person? Ironically enough, you should probably be cautious when someone keeps telling you that they are honest and that you can trust them. Many “you can trust me, bruh” people out there, yet I haven’t met one genuinely trustable.

When I say almost everything has some degree of fakeness, it points to much deeper and probably much harsher reality of human nature. If you think about it, the most common trait that all of us, humans, share is the so-called humanity. If you looked at the definition of this word, you may find compassion and kindness: the quality of being humane, sympathetic, benevolent, and merciful toward others. Well… I hate to break it to you, but humanity is not fully functional, i.e., even the thing that supposedly unites us all has some fakeness to it. If humanity was fully functional, then we wouldn’t have had the need to write constitutions and laws for people. We wouldn’t have had the need to fire as many people or even put as many in jail. Any system that is designed to run off of a human kindness and benevolence is doomed to fail. It simply doesn’t work: the rules force stability and without them humanity neither seems to offer greater good nor it leads to a great sustainable future. It might really be true as much as it sounds sad and dark. Here’s one negative example of humanity related to the recent riots in France:

All this bring us to the only truth that may have ever existed. The truth that tells us everything else is fake and factitious. I believe that this feeling of one’s sudden realization for the immense and utter fakeness deserves its own name: I’ll call it omnifaction. We live in an omnifactitious world, believe in omnifactitious stories, get proud of ourselves for omnifactitious achievements and awards, harm and even kill our own kind for omnifactitious reasons, and find our peace in omnifactitious justifications. Our world is just one big omnifaction.