> Is it possible for an entire social structure to be based on lies? Is it possible for a society to pretend to be something completely different to what it actually is? The ethnographic record says yes. In fact, it’s the norm.

Same can be said for UFOs. Whether or not they exist, since there is no evidence that has a reliable chain of custody we end up with people saying there is no evidence. In fact you can be a direct witness and be told - no, you were on drugs and the picture you took of that UFO was a drug fueled weekend in Photoshop.

And society will continue to do this.

Of course I do. The benign ones are just comforting lies we tell ourselves. As for the other ones, well hopefully, we just grow up and know better. Are materialist marxists, as if there were any other kind, always so dourly un-fun?