Pluto: The Internal Lie Detector

There’s a strange function in the human system that operates like an invisible seismograph: it registers when something sounds false, even though everything appears perfect on the surface. It’s not intuition, it’s not logical analysis. It’s Pluto, and it works like those metal detectors at airports, but tuned to detect ontological inconsistencies (related to what actually is).

This function cannot be turned off voluntarily. It’s like having an internal radar that sounds every time something – a person, a situation, a narrative you tell yourself – doesn’t resonate with the frequency of the authentic. It doesn’t discriminate: it detects external falsehoods with the same implacable precision with which it identifies your own.

The problem is that this detector doesn’t distinguish between useful lies and problematic lies. It registers with equal intensity the salesperson’s fake smile, the explanation that doesn’t quite convince, and that version of yourself you’ve been sustaining to maintain family peace. Everything that isn’t structurally solid starts making noise in the system.

From the ego’s perspective, Pluto is a terrorist: it arrives without warning and dynamites constructions that seemed necessary for psychological survival. But from a broader perspective, it doesn’t destroy anything real. It simply makes visible what was already disintegrated from the origin.

The cruel paradox: you can experience your own authenticity function as an external threat, resisting exactly that which frees you from living in structures that were never really yours.