A Little Foundation.
The worst part of any philosophical discussion, not that I want to start one here, is the defining of terms. You see words and concepts are not stationary things, definitions change over time, they are conceived of differently by different groups, cultures, languages, the level of technology in possession, the state of science, and in fact each mind that contemplates it, has it’s own idiosyncrasies.
But somehow if anything is to be said at all, we have to come to some agreement implicitly or explicitly.
Read any ancient text such and the number of interpretations available may equal to number of words in the text itself.
The problem of interpretation isn’t limited to Religious text, there is much disagreement in Science as well. Principia anybody? Darwin? Origins Research? Einstein? The list of disputes is definitely longer than each text.
It is difficult to decipher what each author is saying, conferences are still held to this day where scholars debate issues at every level of detail.
Objectivity assumes the object. Which object? That is not so clear anymore and hasn’t been for a long time.
However, The Vikid Truth does not want to bore you with further regurgitation of such matters. We don’t want to adjudicate the nuances between modernism and postmodernism. There will be no sales pitch about The Enlightenment or voodoo about how to achieve it.
So let’s leave it here. Words will be used. It’s the reader’s responsibility to use multiple interpretations, look at both charitable and harsh interpretations,
To Dig a little to get at the Truth.
So What is a Lie?
Well it is an old adage to say,
“The Map is not the Territory”.
By this we mean that any representation (now on called the “map”), is NOT the thing we are representing (the “territory”). And this is necessarily so. A picture of an apple is not an apple. The word “car” is not a car.
1 + 1 does not equal 2, contrary to popular belief.
A map is a sort of guide. To the extent that it is useful, the map is good. To the extent that it isn’t it is bad.
Notice here that each map needs a User. And the User must interpret the map within a territory. The user must also have an intention. He must use the map to navigate the territory.
What I mean by a lie can now be established.
A lie, is a map, that the user believes to be good, that in reality, is not and this can be for many reasons.
The lie may be malicious, perhaps you have been given a misleading map by an agent provocateur.
However today we will not consider this sort of Lie. We will rather concern ourselves with maps which are unintentionally bad, that may be there due to historical reasons or due to hubris. For these types of maps are not only more numerous, but they are far more dangerous and form the basis of our modern societies.
One such map is Mathematics itself, and all the other disciplines that rely on it. Namely, Science, Economics and Engineering.
Science tries to build some safety mechanism around it, it’s called the scientific method, namely, we state a hypothesis and then test against it in a iterative way, with hope of building better and better maps. This system has been fucked for a long time. It has been estimated that near 90% of all scientific research and published papers are effectively unreplicable and bogus. The fact that politics has further infected the sciences renders most of it complete and utter garbage.
Almost all Climate Science is Pure Grade A, Bull Shit.
You will not be told these things, in all probability. If you have a strong reaction to the above statement then there is a good chance your mind has been captured. The truth unfortunately is Wicked.
Engineers have known for a long time that equations suck ass. You have to build things, test them to the hilt, over engineer them by a factor of 2 and then hope to mighty god that you don’t get sued or kill someone. Often, people do die, inventors are bankrupted and improvements are made incrementally.
Much of AI research has this quality of Spray and Pray. Don’t believe the recent hype. The field is riddled with Agent Provocateurs. It’s reminds me of the crypto boom.
Medicine? With half the worlds population already sprayed with mRNA, all they can do now is pray. Pray hard my friends.
Gender? How many are there now? Is the map even in the same territory anymore?
And what about Economics? And it’s sisters Commerce and Trade, which it studies with such seriousness?
A subject laden with maps that do not fit any territory except that in the minds of its proponents. Free Marketeers and Socialists both can’t see the Forrest from the Trees. The abstractions used themselves don’t fit reality.
What is “Value”? How do you attach a number to it?
Today, the mad men and woman in Central Banks want to attach it to code, CBDC’s. Have you thought about what that really means. All the assumptions that have to go into it? Who controls the code? How will the code proliferate? Every software engineer knows that code rarely does exactly what you want it to. Even when it does, it’s range is quite limited and requires a lot of maintenance. When code screws up, it does it in spectacular fashion.
These buffoons want to rest our entire civilization upon it? Why might you think? Look at the numbers, none of it makes sense. None of it adds up and that’s why the printing press is running on overtime.
Inflation? Deflation? Unemployment? Every figure is bogus. Even attaching numbers to these things is bogus.
The Nature of the Lie is that the Map is never the territory but almost everyone has seemingly forgotten it.
We are meant to look up to the billionaires. A large swath of society think that Musk will save us with battery polluted cars and rockets to Mars. (Batteries are the definition of pollution, not carbon. Mars? The donkey can’t even reach high orbit, forget the Moon). They think Bezos is some kind of genius. Gates anyone? More like a den of Epstein style vipers.
It’s a mass delusion. Mathematics does not speak Truth. It is nothing but an abstraction of thought. A lousy abstraction at that. But we are lead to believe it is the Queen of all disciplines. We bend reality to fit the math, not the other way round. There is absolutely no math here, in the real world. No geometry. No calculus. No bits, and no bytes.
Now that we laid out our dire analysis. What is to be done?
First things first. Rid your self of the illusion. In to out of Abstraction.
Second, The solution will present itself.
Any map I offer would be a lie. That is the Nature of the Lie.
Cop out? perhaps,
“The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.”
And That’s,
The matrix was never going to educate you about the matrix.