Truth hangs out with Bullshit. They are actually best buddies not enemies. That’s a lesson very important to learn. Most never get there so let’s explore the possibilities and see why you might want to consider it.
Let’s take the example of your regular but brilliant CIA or MI5 spook. He has been on many a mission and done some crazy-ass-shit that could topple dynasties or a country if the truth ever got out. He is bound to secrecy for life but he feels guilty and wants to get his nefarious crimes off his chest. To confess. (Or more probably he needs some cash without getting himself killed)
What does he do?
Well the most common practice is tell his story as thinly veiled fiction. It’s a pretty common thing among spooks because it works.
Second commonest thing they do, is to write 97% percent of the truth as non-fiction but to twist some crucial facts. Kind of like the difference between the DNA of humans and chimps. That last 3% makes all the difference. Truth, hanging out with Bullshit.
That’s how the BBC and all News works by the way. You think you are getting a human when all you’re getting is his hairy cousin.
Staying within the realms of fiction. There is good fiction and bad. If you ask yourself why, you might come out with reasons like, the plot was good, without major holes, the characters had the right motivations and depth, etc etc… which means that a skillful writer has peppered in enough “truth”, between her bullshit to make the story believable and yet fun. Harry Potter is a good example of this. Truths about the human condition veiled inside BS. That’s what fiction is.
But this phenomenon isn’t limited to spies and stories.
Take social relations. Most of it is made up shit smuggling a lot of truth within it. If you want the truth, you have to hang out with some age old bullshit. Gender roles being one of them. This is exactly how postmodernists exploit the situation. They ask questions like, What do you mean by “man of the house”, What is a woman’s role? Etc etc… they can challenge the shit because it is shit. It’s made up. Yes over centuries… but made up all the same. That’s what deconstruction is and why it works.
But guess what? When you lose the crap, the truth goes with it and society descends into trans-confusion.
Religions face a similar problem but I don’t want to divert too much time exploring it here. You get the point.
The fact being, no matter how hard we try, one can’t separate Truth from BS. You can’t distill it out of the brew. Truth is bullshit.
Take science. Newton was full of it. His laws are pure Bullshit. They ain’t true, just useful. The fact they approximate some parts of reality some of the time doesn’t make it true. Yet, you were taught they were “The Laws of Nature”. Nature knows nothing about Newton and never will.
Math too, often considered the mother of all Truth. A is not always A. The very bedrock of logic. It’s convenient to think of it as such but I claim there is no guarantee. And besides, logic on a practical level is highly fallible as often we can’t be sure of our premises and thus everything we build upon it is probably BS mixed with truth. Truth and BS are complimentary, probably in the Heisenbergien sense. And probably deeper than that too.
So what’s the point of all this? If we can never separate the two, how does one proceed?
Well, I think the realization can be very liberating. I learnt more following Alex Jones for the last couple of years than I ever would have limiting my thoughts to the “truth”.
Did you know they were turning the frogs gay?
Ah! you say, what utter BS. The guy’s a loon.
That is until you understand he is talking about endocrine disrupters in the water supply and food.
Now you’re not so sure… are you?
You start to understand why the powers that be have gone so far as to conduct an unjust kangaroo trial for all the world to see. To pin him with $1bn in damages over a case that makes no sense at all. The guy, love him or hate him, will wake you up. And he will do it rudely & crudely but after that you won’t be going back to sleep. Alex Jones is high octane, adderalled, crack cocaine bullshit but you ain’t ever going back to sleep again, if you get enough of that supply. Popping him off would only help him, make him Obiwan Kanobe. So shutting him up and scaring away anyone new is the next best thing. To hide the truth you actually need to eliminate bullshit. Inverse logic. Follow the unintuitive.
I have also spent a solid year researching the “flat earth” movement. Something almost everyone respectable (or not) thinks is so stupid that “flat-earther” is a synonym for “idiot of the highest kind”. But the real fact is that these flat-earthers have something going for them. Behind the lunacy again, there is something that rings true. What that something is, I will leave for you. Behind the lunacy you realize that you took a lot of things for granted without actually checking up on it and verifying it for yourself. Ever tried some spherical geometry? Or thought about the size of the moon? That’ll get your mind working. You realize again, that bundled with the crap is the gold you need to better understand this plane of existence.
Ebony and ivory
Live together in perfect harmony
McCartney was onto to something you see…
Most people ignore the Ebony. They don’t “have time” for it or are repelled by it. That’s actually your psychological firewall. A protection mechanism. The “Do not go yonder!” alarm that bangs in your subconscious without you knowing it.
So this is the point and the answer to the question.
Find your Ebony for every Ivory.
Therein lies the Harmony.
Don’t be afraid of it.
And this is the golden key,
Embrace the Bullshit, for the Truth lies within.
And that’s
"Conspiracy theorists are just people capable of pattern recognition" - DJT Jr.
Where's the curvature? Eight inches per mile squared? How is there air pressure without a container? Gravity or density? What is really in Antarctica?