We live in an amusing time where scientific and argumentative logic is often considered to define reality itself, even though such ideas are conjectural by their very nature (the universe is larger than us, thus all of our assessments approximate but do not exactly match a description of its mechanisms). People are fond of saying "This proves..." or "It's a known fact that..." without realizing that despite all of our theories and suppositions, there is only one proof in the world: events and actions as they occur, including the response of the surrounding ecosystem and physical world.

Wiser thinkers in the past reserved the term "fact" for actions as they had occurred, something often called history, but moderns like to think that abstraction is fact because our entire system of government and society is based upon abstractions. The first abstraction is morality: the idea that "good" or "evil" could classify events as they happened to an individual, and that this classification could be more important than events themselves. This is a fallacy of personal perspective, by which people reason that because they only know their world through themselves the world must be governed by the self - obviously an illusion, since the world is full of selves and none of us are so supreme. Morality of this type occurs when people are more afraid for themselves, fearing death or evolutionary insufficiency, than they are of lack of accomplishment or doing right by the order of nature as a whole.

There is no greater proof than history. History shows us ideas translated into actions and then how the world responded over generations; this is important because almost any idea will succeed initially if given enough support, but over time may be revealed to be unrealistic, even if this takes centuries. History is fact, and by history we do not mean the politicized "spun" accounts of history but events themselves and the fates of societies not as unique occurrences but as responses of the world to the type of design of that society. History for example tells us that democracies arise in the dying days of great empires, and they always cannibalize themselves and become totalitarian states. History also tells us that no multicultural society has survived more than a century in that state. Further, history shows us that when a civilization becomes more fascinated by commerce than culture, it collapses. Strangely, all of these historically-proven errors describe our modern time; is it any reason then that people are in denial of the facts?