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Truthiness as a logical, rational justification for autocracy. | Truthiness as a logical, rational justification for autocracy. | ||
===Truthy things have a habit of being wrong=== | |||
A lot of things the “collective conscious ” has held to be true for a very long time have turned out not to be. | |||
Euclidean spacetime, for example. | |||
But Euclidean spacetime not being true, per se, has not made it any less ''useful''. | |||
The scientific method is not incrementally converging on a truth. Special relativity is not a refinement of Newton, but an utter rejection of it. Newton’s fundamental notion of space and time is utterly wrong. | |||
===The “woke mind virus”=== | ===The “woke mind virus”=== | ||
The things blamed on untruthiness tend to rely, covertly on truthy principles. | The things blamed on untruthiness tend to rely, covertly on truthy principles. | ||