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{{a|philosophy|}} | {{a|philosophy|}}''This is a narrative. Feel free to reject it or adapt it. It’s not like I can stop you.'' | ||
The defenders of liberal [[enlightenment]] — surely a worthy cause in [[our stupid age]] — are given to blame our current predicament in the [[moronic now]] on our loss of confidence in ''[[Truth|objective truth]]''. | |||
=== | Examples of this: from the liberal left: [[Helen Pluckrose]], John Bennet, [[Kathleen Stock]]. From the reactionary right: [[Douglas Murray]], [[Jordan Peterson]]. Fake news. | ||
===“Untruthiness” is a heresy === | |||
“Without truth there is nothing —” | “Without truth there is nothing —” | ||
Even classic untruthists have been at pains to deny it. Darwin, Kuhn, Hume etc such has been the collective fear of the establishment. | Even classic untruthists have been at pains to deny it. Darwin, Kuhn, Hume etc such has been the collective fear of the establishment. | ||
Truths do exist within power structures. “The establishment”, be It the government, academy, business, the guilds or the church | Truths do exist within power structures. That is the only place they exist. “The establishment”, be It the government, academy, business, the guilds or the church — each exists precisely to build out and defend its own truth. | ||
Fears of untruthiness arise when one power structure | Fears of “untruthiness” — notice how the complaint is not untruth per se, but untruthiness in concept — arise when one power structure infringes on the territory of another. For years, the “liberal arts” power structure chuntered happily along, confined to the critical studies modules of sociology and feminist studies departments where it originated. Only the white collar revolution — a side-current of the information revolution, whereby manual workers, forced off the production line, had no choice but to educate themselves , and reorganised into weaponised human resources departments, have these tenets started to interact with those of the guilds. | ||
====This is no bad thing, per se==== | ====This is no bad thing, per se==== | ||