Delusions appear to be necessary for happiness.

The rule: No man should be without delusions since they appear necessary to our happiness as realities.

Humanity’s struggle is invisible. A greater number of people believe in a magic universe. Man is unable to make fundamental corrections. The masses continue to believe that anything is possible. It allows them to defer to authority and opt for idealized solutions. Delusion and ignorance are inextricable, the former insuring the latter, both incompatible with integrity and effective human function. Myth and fantasy span the spectrum across religious, political, economic, social, and scientific fields. When we begin to recognize the fundamental nature of beliefs, maybe the unfounded ideas and rules will become aware of nature's principles that are being ignored and violated.

One  insidious aspect of a cultural myth is that, once accepted, there is a desperate, inborn drive to protect and maintain them. They cause people to avoid and reject the very information necessary for insight, resulting in abysmal ignorance in the area of the belief. A fantasy is a thought about a scenario an individual knows is untrue, at least on a deeper level, but likes the personal gratification it brings.Within our own society, a large percentage of the population realizes that most of our cherished ideas and premises are untrue, but support them, never the less. The acceptance of our cultural fantasies range from grudged and marginal tolerance to blind, fanatic and evangelistic faith. For a large segment of the world's human population, cultural myths and fantasies constitute psychosis, a predominant immersion in belief, where reality is denied and the ability to distinguish the real from the fantasy is lost. Systems are so corrupt that one is required to lie in order to live within them, blunting individual integrity and seriously compromising the ability of systems to even be useful. Governmental coercion results in our obeying laws that are counter to human effectiveness and forces our complicity in the dissemination of propaganda and in the perpetuation of diverse disorder.

In every society, there are cultural imperatives to lie. You are strongly pressured to accept and believe false information. You are strongly dissuaded from questioning the beliefs of others or the system.You are pressured to lie to your children, to the authorities, to your associates and, worst of all, to yourself. You are lied to by your parents, your peers, your authorities, your institutions and, of course, the media. You are constantly bombarded and live your life immersed in lies. It is a testament to man that living in a quagmire, he still has the capacity to see the realities which lie all but hidden among the weeds of cultural delusion.

An unspoken code mandates that you support the delusions of others, at least to the degree that you do not pose a serious threat to them. Supporting one another's delusions is socially gracious or considerate.You are discouraged from talking about anything that will illuminate a flaw in another's belief. Punishment of your transgression is swift from the person whose cherished belief is threatened and whom you gain their attention.

People believe that society's fantasies are harmless, if not actually helpful. Such thinking creates a safe haven for many seemingly innocuous myths and fantasy systems, lessening the pressure to discard them. Many of our most cherished fantasies have not only wide-spread acceptance on this basis but attract a large percentage of the population as active supporters. Popular support tends to discourage open questioning and criticism of delusional material and the production of factual material to the contrary. Few buck the rushing and angry waters of popular opinion, especially when it is whipped to a maelstrom by unseen but powerful and virulent forces within the a society. 

The powerful come to the conclusion that mankind should be allowed to live in an unstated context of conventional thought that obscures or avoids acknowledging one’s true world, one's relations in the world, and one's choices. The choice of self-deception allows one to avoid the truth of oneself to the world as it would lead to feelings of dread, guilt and anxiety. Without any delusion, man becomes depressed. It is a catch 22 where the depressed ones may give the clearest observation to fairness but since life is not fair, seeking fairness may ultimately end in depression.