We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Creativity has a touch of the bizarre

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.