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While most people implicitly believe in Free Will, they have largely been unaware of the dark forces at work for decades to convince everyone that Free Will is just an illusion. These forces include the programming of mainstream media, "Common Core" educational program, and the "transhumanism" movement in all of its manifestations as depicted in movies, magazine covers, and other corporate agendas. A growing body of evidence from research in psychology has demonstrated why this is a very bad idea for the future of humanity. excerpt: "For example, telling people they do not have free will has been shown to increase cheating ( Vohs & Schooler, 2008) decrease helping behavior and increases aggression ( Baumeister, Masicampo, & DeWall, 2009), reduce self-control ( Rigoni, Kuhn, Gaudino, Sartori, & Brass, 2012), and impair detection of errors ( Rigoni, Wilquin, Brass, & Burle, 2013). These findings suggest that believing in free will may be instrumentally valuable from the standpoints of positive psychology and public morality. This is true regardless of whether or not we actually have free will." Nadelhoffer, T, et al., (2014) The free will inventory: Measuring beliefs about agency and responsibility, Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 25, Pages 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.01.006. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810014000075)