Symbols And Deception, And The Social Murder of Identity

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Introduction
This book is about the fascinating phenomenon of misperception of reality and how this leads to loss of identity. Our habit of understanding the world via generic meanings associated with the symbolic appearance of everything around us subtly seduces our

Chapter 1: Misperceptions
Nothing is more amazing than a dream. The ornate intimations of a dream are as inscrutable as they are self-revealing. They are unfathomable because the images in our dreams represent something other than the images themselves.

Chapter 1: Misperceptions, Part 2
Before talking about the profoundness of Marx's discovery and explication of this distinction in human labor, it must be noted that Marx considers this abstract labor as determining the exchange value of commodities.

This book is about the fascinating phenomenon of misperception of reality and how this leads to loss of identity. Our habit of understanding the world via generic meanings associated with the symbolic appearance of everything around us subtly seduces our sense of judgement into oblivion, separating us from ourselves; we lose our identities. But this is not natural to human ways of life. Economic, political, social, and cultural systems and processes in society are what set this intriguing process in motion—a process that profoundly affects our personal lives, as well as our institutions and the larger society we confront every day. Freedom and genuine, humanistic democracy is the simple condition that will desymbolize social interactions and processes. And there would be no need to misperceive reality. The book is written for the general intellectual public; yet, it is also a theoretical work. It is written in a nonesoteric and nontechnical language; it avoids the "academic privatization" of knowledge. The book blends psychology, economics, politics, philosophy, and sociology into a unified approach for making sense of our lives. The ultimacy of human dignity and happiness is what guides the analysis and method of the book.

Studied sociology, but my love is psychology. Hence, my work tends to be social- psychological. I think true knowledge about society and social interactions can be gained only if it can be explored and described within the context of everyday life. Why ignore what is abundantly around us and engage in abstract discussions? For years, in my university years, I sat thru social science courses and did not understand.

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