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I disagree, our species largely lives in a state of some kind of delusion or willful ignorance, even you and me.
Learning to understand and use people's desire to be deluded can move mountains. I mean, the bad guys are doing it and have literally won everything, while we've lost everything. Tell me again there's no lesson to learn here.
I wouldn't use the word 'delusion' then. Delusions are predicated on defying incontrovertible proof of falsehood.
They are a defense mechanism. The desire to be deluded is a fear response. Knowing you're dealing with fear is one thing, but I think this has to be treated more like addiction intervention than some kind of puppet mastery.