It was once attributed to Joe Hunt, co-founder of the infamous Billionaire Boys Club that, in a nutshell Lie when its to your advantage. A pundit quickly coined this The Paradox Philosophy.

Surely the pundit never personally conversed with the Billionaire Boys Club alumnus, but I have.

It’s largely unreasonable to think that any single individual could come up with the so-called Paradox Philosophy, yet find himself sitting in the prison chapel of a level 4 maximum security prison serving multiple life sentences. No, only the truly powerful and truly intellectual types would be able to come up with such an idea. (Some of them have even convinced the entire world that they are total nincompoops, part of what the Paradox Philosophy is about).

The stakes would have to be massive, and those employing the Philosophy would have to be bold enough and fearless enough to blatantly impose the ideology despite its over contradictions and inherently harmful nature toward humanity in general.

Only a President of the United States of American and his close constituents could pull this off and never end up in prison.

Consider that the following wars were and are deeply influenced and guided by The Paradox Philosophy; The war on Poverty (U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69), The war on Drugs (U.S. President Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89), The war on Terrorism (U.S. President George W. Bush, 2001-present).

None of these so-called wars were ever intended to be won e.g. bringing about complete annihilation or total suppression of the enemy.

Arguably, poverty, drugs (illegal and legal), and terrorism are the enemy of all mankind. I’ve come to reason, as I’m sure most U.S. citizens have, that our government either cannot defeat the enemy[ies], or simply do not desire to. It’s much more likely that our leaders lack the desire.

In a 1964 essay by George Orwell titled Politics and the English Language there can be found a description of four ways truth is shrouded in cocoons of debased speech by the perpetrators of deadly political action:

1. Pretentious diction;
2. Verbal false limbs;
3. Dying metaphors; and
4. Meaningless vocabulary

It seems evident that we, as a nation, enjoy being lied to by our leaders in government. Did any truly believe, then, or now, that LBJ seriously intended to launch a genuine attack on poverty in the U.S., and even more incredibly, win?

In reality, absent all of the pretentious diction, verbal false limbs, dying metaphors, and meaningless vocabulary, it certainly appears (in retrospect) that President Johnson did in fact intend to launch and win a war. But the war was never a war against poverty. The war was against the idea of poverty. Two very different wars.

What the Commander-in-Chief really intended was for poverty to no longer be labeled as poverty. Oh yes, it could still exist, and it does. But most often we refer to ourselves as upper, middle, or lover class citizens of the country.

The word poverty doesn’t even need to arise in civil discussions. We see it, we label it as anything other than what it is, and viola! The war is won.

The Great Communicator Ronald W. Reagan! Let’s not talk about Reaganomics or the Star Wars Strategic Defense System. Let’s stick to what we know to have been a blatant but beautiful lie; The War on Drugs.

We would all like to believe in the necessity of a war on drugs, and the imperativeness of it being soundly and decidedly won. That is, everyone but former President Ronald Reagan and his group who helped cook up the idea.

How does on propose to win a war on drugs when the wrong enemy is being fought? The primary war should be at our borders, period. If the drugs were stopped at the borders (or ideally before reaching and breaching our borders) theoretically all remaining illicit and illegal drugs in the U.S. would eventually dry up i.e. run out.

But what has happened since the Gipper waged war on drugs in this country? Mostly street level drug users and drug sellers have been put into jails and prisons engorging the penal system.

The gargantuan quantities of drugs continue to come into the U.S. on planes, underground, on ships, and various sorts of mules.

It’s not all bad though. I’m no pessimist. Mr. Reagan, by engaging a war on drugs, countless jobs were created for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and other newly installed agencies designed to help fight the war on drugs.

We all now know that the creation of the war on drugs was a creation of jobs paid with bloody currency and political platforms supported by the corpses of our lower class U.S. citizens.

Additionally, a tidal wave of undereducated men and women, lacking in social skills began filling positions of correctional officers in the U.S. prisons in the U.S. prisons being built to house the domestic enemy combatants in the war on drugs.

It could even be argued that Mr. Reagan helped the economy and families by initiating a war which was never intended to be won. The gift that keeps on giving.

Finally, we have George Dubya and his war on terrorism. I will neither insult you, nor bore you with time wasted on pointing out all of the contradictions to this so-called war.

But there is something which must not go unsaid.

The so-called war on terrorism can absolutely, positively, never ever be won as far as the U.S. is concerned. Why? We will be using this ploy, and other variations, for generations to come as justification to meddle in the affairs of other countries, and to methodically strip our own citizens of rights guaranteed to us by the United States Constitution, and by the very fact that we are human beings.

So, there will be no victory in the war on terrorism, at least not from the standpoint of the common man and woman.

The new world is being forged by these fake wars of The Paradox Philosophy.

Whatever is not truism is gibberish.

War on poverty? War on drugs? War on terrorism? Gibberish.

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