LibertyAndTruth
Liberty is Truth
These books begin with a single foundational claim: liberty — the absence of imposition — is the only objective basis for moral judgment. From that foundation, the project extends through the mechanics of how people think and deceive themselves, how political systems are structured to serve concentrated wealth rather than public interest, why conventional approaches to poverty and inequality fail the people they claim to help, and what specific reforms would produce different outcomes. The work spans philosophy, cognitive science, political economy, policy, and personal experience — connected not by subject matter but by a single analytical framework applied consistently across all of them. It is grounded in direct experience with the systems it analyzes. The aim throughout is not commentary but precision: identifying the structural causes of human problems clearly enough that the solutions become visible.
Together, these books argue that human problems stem from self-deception, reinforced by systems of power that exploit it. They combine theory with lived experience, exposing mechanisms of belief, systemic corruption, and economic control — while offering both critique and proposals for a more truthful, liberty-based society.
The Supremacy of Bias Orion Simerl explores the hidden psychological forces that make us cling to our beliefs, even when confronted with clear facts and reasoning. Through the lens of value protective denial — the tendency to reject information that threatens our sense of identity or self-worth — Simerl reveals why meaningful dialogue so often breaks down.
Drawing from real social media debates on topics ranging from economics and politics to religion and morality, the book shows how bias not only distorts individual thinking but also undermines collective problem-solving in society. Each exchange is carefully analyzed to expose the mechanics of avoidance, denial, and rejection, making abstract concepts vivid and relatable.
This timely and provocative work is more than a critique of online culture — it is a call to recognize how bias shapes our choices, our politics, and even our relationships. By understanding these dynamics, readers can begin to reclaim the possibility of honest communication in an age of polarization.
The American Prosperity Proposals In American Prosperity Proposals, Orion Simerl argues that many Americans are not held back by a lack of effort, but by circumstances that deny them sufficient time and money for effort to matter. Rejecting emotional appeals and ideological prescriptions, the book presents a practical, incentive-driven approach to reform.
Through proposals such as the Round-Up Service Charge, the Balance Stimulus, Employee-Termed Scheduling, and Centers for Economic Planning, Simerl shows how opportunity can be expanded without undermining markets, productivity, or individual liberty. Each proposal addresses both economic mechanics and political reality.
Liberty: The Definitive Moral Truth grounds moral judgment in the universal structure of conscious experience. Every conscious being, by definition, desires — and the only arrangement in which all desires can be pursued simultaneously is one where no individual imposes on another. From this structural fact, the book derives objective morality: non-imposition as the singular criterion for right and wrong, applicable across all circumstances and independent of cultural variation, religious authority, or subjective preference.
The first half develops this framework systematically. It identifies five categories of imposition — physical, property, threats, deception, and circumstantial — and explains how collective systems that deny people adequate access to time, money, and opportunity constitute indirect imposition even when no single actor intends harm. It also examines the mechanics of moral psychology: how morality functions through self-worth, how subjective moral systems operate as instruments of control rather than objective standards, and why the distinction between objective and subjective morality has consequences for every domain of human life.
The second half applies the framework to the major world religions, evaluating their central tenets against the standard of liberty. It then extends into metaphysics — examining what objective morality implies about the nature of any creator, whether consciousness survives death, and why the universe, understood as a generator of novelty and complexity, may represent the solution to a problem inherent in eternal existence.
The Florida Ordeal is the record and preface to a trip to Florida that resulted in 2 felony charges and 4 misdemeanors for the possession of less than 3 grams of marijuana, 4 10mg gummy edibles, and a pipe with marijuana residue. The book chronicles my experience going to court and how I was able to use the leverage of misconduct by the public defender and the judge to achieve a favorable outcome.
Understanding Political Functions Through Recent Political History 2019-20 Understanding Political Functions Through Recent Political History by Orion Simerl reexamines the U.S. political system as one structurally designed to serve elite economic interests rather than popular will. Extending the tradition of Charles Beard, C. Wright Mills, and Thomas Ferguson, the book integrates historical analysis, political science theory, contemporary case studies (2019–2020), and personal observation.
Its novel contributions include reframing the American Revolution as dependent on mercenary enlistment rather than patriotic ideology; interpreting expansions of suffrage, civil rights, and social programs as system-preserving concessions rather than democratic triumphs; and extending Ferguson’s “investment theory of politics” into present-day policy debates on taxation, healthcare, and climate change. The book further advances original critiques of the opioid epidemic as demand-driven, proposes unconventional resolutions to entrenched conflicts such as Israel–Palestine (“The Option”), and introduces institutional innovations such as Centers for Economic Planning and the Organization for Popular Legislation to counterbalance industrial dominance.
By combining structural critique with forward-looking proposals, Simerl offers both diagnosis and remedy. The work contributes to scholarship on political economy, democratic theory, and U.S. constitutional history, while engaging general readers through its polemical clarity and contemporary relevance.
Racial Perceptions: Addressing Popular Misconceptions that Contribute to Racial Divide challenges prevailing narratives of systemic racism in the United States by reframing disadvantage as primarily a function of economic inequality and class position. Through a combination of high-profile case studies (e.g., George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Breonna Taylor, Rashard Brooks), statistical analysis, and personal experiences with law enforcement and the justice system, the work argues that disparities commonly attributed to race are more accurately explained by socioeconomic conditions.
The book critiques the use of racial framing in media, politics, and academia, suggesting that selective interpretation of data reinforces division while obscuring class-based causes of inequality. It advances the claim that, while historic systemic racism shaped patterns of disadvantage, present-day disparities persist mainly through income inequality, cultural influences, and geographic context rather than ongoing racial discrimination.
By integrating quantitative data with qualitative narrative, the text provides a provocative intervention in debates on race, policing, and justice. Its central contribution lies in challenging readers to distinguish between systemic racism as a historical reality and class-based inequality as a contemporary determinant, thereby encouraging a reframing of policy and public discourse around opportunity rather than race.
Covid 19 Media Project: Identifying the Interests and Tactics Used to Create Hysteria establishes the risk of being infected with covid 19 and contrasts that risk to the risk being projected by the media and politicians by reviewing 7 popular news articles from the beginning of the outbreak. The main conclusion is that COVID did not represent a threat to public safety to justify police powers to impose on the rights of citizens, and danger was intentionally exaggerated to serve the interests of the media, politicians, industry, and others at a detriment to the public.
Assignment, Sequencing, and Comparison advances a unifying framework for cognition by identifying three irreducible processes—assignment, sequencing, and comparison—as the foundation of all subconscious activity. Its novel contributions are:
In sum, ASC contributes a parsimonious yet comprehensive account of cognition that explains decision-making, standards, denial, and intelligence within a single framework.
Ava is a father’s raw and unflinching tribute to his daughter, Ava Kali Simerl, who died by suicide at just 19 years old. Through a blend of personal reflection, Ava’s own words, and philosophical inquiry, the book goes beyond recounting a tragedy—it seeks to understand it.
In these pages, readers witness the depth of a parent’s love and the struggle to reconcile loss with meaning. The narrative moves between intimate recollections of Ava’s life, the difficult hours in the hospital, and years of text exchanges that reveal her humor, intelligence, and growing independence. Alongside this personal story, the author explores larger questions: What is the nature of existence? Does consciousness survive death? How do morality and freedom shape our understanding of what it means to live—and to leave?
Ava is not only a memorial, but also a meditation on love, liberty, and the endurance of the human spirit. Honest, thought-provoking, and deeply moving, it invites readers to reflect on grief, resilience, and the eternal search for meaning.
Titled The Oubliette, the journal spans from 2017 to the present — roughly 800 pages of entries covering political and legal analysis, the mechanics of daily survival without stable housing, the development and failed promotion of the material collected here, and the application of objective morality to events as they occurred. It documents the conditions under which this body of work was produced, which are inseparable from what the work argues. Click the image to access the full journal.
A biographical overview outlining the personal experiences and intellectual progression underlying Simerl’s work in philosophy, cognition, and public policy.
The Organization for Popular Legislation (OPL) is built on the premise that public policy in the United States is shaped not by the will of the people, but by the industries that finance the two major political parties. These parties, the argument goes, consistently prioritize the interests of their investors, leaving the bottom half of income earners without genuine representation.
Recognizing that many congressional districts are decided by relatively small margins of 10,000 to 20,000 votes, OPL seeks to concentrate voter influence in these swing districts. The strategy is to organize pledges and collective voting power, making it clear that legislators’ careers could hinge on whether they adopt or reject OPL-backed policies. Through this leverage, OPL envisions shifting legislative priorities from party-aligned investors to policies that materially benefit ordinary people.
Several papers derived from this body of work are currently under review or in preparation for submission to peer-reviewed journals. These include work in moral philosophy, cognitive psychology, and public policy. Preprints of select papers are available for download through the link above.
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