Why is my ego on center again? and what's this Greatest illusion? What's so difficult about answering a few questions asking clarification, like what assumptions you're talking about, what's the analogy for, and how have you not decidedly stuck your head in the sand so as not to offer the negative side of the paper towel any of your dripping energy? You think that focusing extensively on things that are "positive" will somehow mitigate the effects of negative things or that it would somehow GIVE energy to the negative. Your words:

and have faith that people learn from positive example just as easily as they embrace and adopt fear based existence from negative examples.

MY ego isn't the point of this conversation, nor the "greates illusion", you avoided my points refuting the simplistic notion that "happiness means everything" and the "truth" that happiness is based on how we chose to drip our energy, and you chose negativity and happiness wasn't there, yet the next person chooses negativity and finds pure joy, ecstasy, happiness looks like a turd next to those other feelings, that's no truth, that's "your" truth.

The equally simplistic look at "focusing on the negatives creates negatives" is the fallacy of positive thinking to a t. Yeah all these things exist but I don't care about them because it doesn't make me happy, in which case you have not much principle and just a feelometer that rules your choices. Too bad feelings aren't truth any more than opinions.

Negative bias confirms your feelings very much so, negatives have a serious impact on people compared to positives, it's two sides of the same coin, it doesn't expressly influence more negatives, but negatives affect us more, and not looking at them won't make them disappear any faster, while looking at the positives, spreading positives has a lot less impact than a negative. The crucial point being that one negative will undo many positives in their impact on us, but that's not to say that our only power is to shield ourselves from facing or dealing with the negatives, it's to show that there's a need for a healthier way of dealing with the negatives. If speaking the truth is such an unhappy endeavor then don't do it, but saying

The conclusion that I came to was that I was falling for the illusion myself. I believed that hunting down liars and deceptions through my own lies and deceptions was somehow going to fix the world. I mean, I was pretty good at lying and deception, don't get me wrong, but one amazing source of subterfuge is not going to counteract all of the other deceptions in the world. I also had to consider that I wasn't making anyone happy by telling them that things are actually worse than they perceived them to be.

What does that mean that you were lying to fix the world?
Whats it mean that you were pretty good at lying and deception?

No, it's not your responsibility to counteract all the deceptions in the world, and no, it's not your responsibility to conform people living a lie. First, your responsibility is over yourself, unless you think that someone can be responsible for you. Nobody has responsibility over the world because nobody can claim the world or anyone else without agreement over that, and if you want others to lie to you instead of telling you the truth so as not to feel you bads then you should feel guilty for their reactions, too bad you don't feel much guilt over your reaction outside that o so inviting smilyface to an actual, get that, a REAL conversation, as opposed to the fake, unactual one.