Sunday, April 11, 2021

All Cretans are Liars and All Leftists are Cretins

Before getting to the heart of the matter, I want to highlight a few more passages from Rebecca Goldstein's Incompleteness. Frankly, I don't understand why more people don't talk about Gödel. Then again, whenever the Matrix excludes or vilifies an idea or a person, there's a damn good reason: it's not helpful to the Matrix. 

For the left, anything outside the Narrative simply doesn't exist. And if it insists on existing, then that's when the left becomes explicitly (instead of just implicitly) violent. 

For example, why doesn't BLM celebrate Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas or Candace Owens? Why does the Party of Science flee from the science of IQ? Why don't AGW hysterics push for nuclear energy? Why do feminists reject womanhood? Why do the Champions of Democracy want to dilute your vote by flooding the country with illegal Democrats and making it easer to cheat? Why doesn't the founder of Black Lives Matter want to live amongst blacks?  

As alluded to in our previous offering, postmodern proglodytes don't mind the Theorems so long as they can twist them to their ends, i.e., that there is no truth and man can't know it. This is essentially an updated version of "all Cretans are liars," i.e., "all leftists are cretins." 

Jumping ahead (or above) a bit, another question I want to delve into is the possibility of an a priori metaphysics. Long story short, this is a non-starter (literally) for Thomism, which insists that we must begin the vertical ascent at the bottom and the exterior, AKA objects and sensations. 

I'm a somewhat simple but definitely vulgar man so I'm no doubt missing something, but the statement all knowledge begins in the senses isn't a sensation. Just sayin'.

I suspect the reasons Thomas says this are twofold, 1) to protect the majesty of both God and formal revelation, and 2) to prevent man from getting too full of himsoph.  As pride is the root of all sin, humility is the foundation of... No, it's just the foundation, period. And if you think you can read God's mind, well, you're like Adam, only worse!

Later we'll circle back to Genesis, only literally, for extremes meet.

Now, you don't have to be a mathematician to know that mathematics is a priori. Why not metaphysics? 

In ether worlds, we don't need matter to know that 2 + 2 = 4, let alone that 1 + 1 = 3. Why then would we start at the contingent end to trace the contours of Necessary Being? 

As 2 + 2 will always be 4 in every real world (leftworld being fundamentally unreal, which is the whole point), we can affirm with equal certitude that -- for example -- the Absolute is, that Absoluteness entails infinitude, and that infinitude implies radiation, extension, creation, and mayaplicity (i.e., appearances "separate" from Reality).  

About the apriorism of math, Goldstein agrees that 

the mathematician neither resorts to any observations in arriving at his or her mathematical insights nor do these mathematical insights, in and of themselves, entail observations, so that nothing we experience can undermine the grounds we have for knowing them.

Nothing we experience can undermine the grounds we have for knowing them. Bear that in mind.

Now, I ask you: wouldn't it be nice if we could say the same of our ultimate theory, or of our theory of the Ultimate? But in a post-truth, anti-intellectual world plunged into the tyranny of relativism, we are supposed to repeat with a straight face the crooked farce that There is no Truth, and Man is its Messenger

Well, there are degrees of bullshit, and that last statement attains the highest and most "esoteric" (in an inverse manner) one. Indeed, this is the cautionary entalement of Genesis 3, precisely. You could go so far as to say that this is the quintessence of Satan's own metaphysic. If you don't believe me, believe the Aphorist:

No one is more respectful of “others’ beliefs" than the devil.
For as it pertains to the pervertical diseases of multiculturalism, "diversity," and moral relativism, Satan is OG. Again, he is the ontological sponsor, guide, and protector of the left in all its forms throughout all of history: he is the divider and the scatterer, the very principle of chaos, entropy, and vertical gravity. Here are a couple more wise slayings just to twist the hammer:

The proclamation of our autonomy is the founding act of Hell.

Here begins the gospel of Hell: In the beginning was nothing and it believed nothing was god, and was made man, and dwelt on earth, and by man all things were made nothing.

 Now, by way of inverse analogy, we do in a very real way begin with the senses. Here's another aphorism to prove the point, but only to people in need of no proof:

Mysticism is the empiricism of transcendent knowledge. 

I'm going to stop right there, not because we're anyone close to finished with this subject, but because I don't want to make the reader sick. I hear that people who go on this "internet" thing prefer concision and brevity, so I've been doing it all wrong. 

12 comments:

Gagdad Bob said...

About Satan the scatterer: check out the Times' helpful leading edge guide to the dozens of pronouns from which to choose. Progressive craziness travels halfway around the world before parody can get its boots on.

julie said...

As pride is the root of all sin, humility is the foundation of... No, it's just the foundation, period.

The stone the builders rejected...

But in a post-truth, anti-intellectual world plunged into the tyranny of relativism, we are supposed to repeat with a straight face the crooked farce that There is no Truth, and Man is its Messenger.

We were just discussing the other day the disastrous effects of a couple generations of kids raised by parents who were "Christian," but "didn't want to force their beliefs on their kids." To the surprise only of said parents, the kids grew up with faith only in what the world has taught them, instead.

Then again, it doesn't help when kids are getting the same message from within their own churches. Scattered, indeed.

ted said...

I hear that people who go on this "internet" thing prefer concision and brevity, so I've been doing it all wrong.

Perhaps the internet is wrong (like the NYT).

Anonymous said...

(Raises hand) Socialist here. Democrat, left of center. The label "woke" applied to me would not bother me at all.

But Cretin? Defined as "a stupid person (used as general term of abuse)?

Well that sounds like verbal abuse. I'm not happy about it.

Would you care to explain why you are calling all leftists cretins? Sure I read the post, as you enumerate all of the nonsense of what you think leftist believe. Not impressed. Not accurate. Fake news.

Sure the left has delusional members, but then again so does the right. So what. At best we are all equals. So what does that make you, a cretin? A stupid person?

The post is offensive as hell. That you have in spades. The best thing you could do for your tainted reputation now is to write a detailed retraction.

Gracias, Gabriella Cajon

Anonymous said...

For example, why doesn't BLM celebrate Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas or Candace Owens? Why does the Party of Science flee from the science of IQ?

Oh dear. Speaking of cretins, I've seen those three interviewed. Good god. Give me Colin Powell, Michael Steele and Condoleezza Rice any day.

Anonymous said...

Your indignation would be much more effective if you stormed off in a huff, never to grace the comments section with your presence ever again. That would really show everyone here that you are serious.

Anonymous said...

I sure wish I could be as serious as Donald "Mitch McConnell is a dumb son of a bitch" Trump.

Anonymous said...

The whole conservative political edifice is propped up by chronic dissatisfaction. All complainers, conservative men have ovaries the size of Texas and get hysterical over almost anything. Meanwhile their balls have to be located by special scans and even then some can't be seen.

Meanwhile, more capable persons are ensuring we carry on with space exploration, stabilization of the environment and the economy, and all other things that matter.

Any conservative want to lodge a complaint? What, all of you want to lodge a complaint? Gee what a surprise.

julie said...

Off topic, Dupree, is that you?

Cousin Dupree said...

Let's just say that some things are more hazardous than bathing a cat.

Van Harvey said...

Lol Julie, Pepe Dupree.

jorgen b said...

Cretins originally meant people who lived in Crete, where they claimed Zeus died and was burried in a tomb, to which a Stoic poet replied "Cretins are always liars..." The left are atheist feces, so it fits.

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