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Mark, have you watched www.humancondition.com?

I would be positively intrigued by your insights after watching the 4x15m video.

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"If there were no objective truth, only 'my truth,' 'your truth,' and 'the cat's truth,' then your belief that there's a sweater under the bed would be just as true as the cat's belief that it's not your sweater. You would reach under the bed for the sweater, and it would be there. The cat would not claw you.

The same applies to jumping off a building. If the postmodernists’ truth that 'We won’t die' were just as true as my truth that 'Sorry, but you *will* die,' then they could step off the building and remain suspended in mid-air. I, on the other hand, would plummet to certain death because that’s what 'my truth' requires.

Those things don’t happen. Even postmodernists know it when they’re not making their confused arguments. Even if beliefs are true relative to their systems of belief, objective truth still exists independently of our belief systems. As we test our beliefs by comparing them with new evidence and analysis, our beliefs approach objective truth *asymptotically* -- i.e, they get closer and closer to reality but can never quite reach it because our belief systems are finite and reality is infinite."

https://www.consilience-publishing.com/whysanepeople/

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Dec 2, 2022·edited Dec 2, 2022

“a not-so distant future in which the values and morals of the majority are controlled by a small group who rule by a perfect understanding of psychology, and who in turn, being able to see through any system of morality that might induce them to act in a certain way”

Lewis explores the same ideas in his “space trilogy,” especially in “That Hideous Strength.” When it came out in the mid 1940s it must have seemed wild-eyed and alarmist. But today I find it chillingly prophetic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength

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Could I suggest that you read the latest article by Alexander Dugin which is interesting and though provoking and can be found on katehon.com. I would very much like to see your analysis of his thoughts.

Its a great article and while I personally agree with much of what is said, typically for Dugin there are statements that I really don’t accept which may be simply due to his perspective as a Russian. As that site has no provision for comments its similar to politicians and the controlled media, they can say anything without fear of challenge but someone really should or you can just enjoy the article.

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Dec 2, 2022·edited Dec 2, 2022

Ellmers is spot on with his diagnosis of the ills facing the USA (and Europe). After the theft of the 2020 and 2022 elections, I for one cannot face another two years of conservative fools telling us "We'll get 'em for sure in 2024!" Free and fair elections, at least at the federal level, are finished in the US, and there's no point wasting time and energy on them. He is also right on target with his more optimistic observations: "You can throw nature out with a pitchfork, said the Roman poet, but she will always return. This fact is liberating and inspiring. Standing on the side of human nature is exactly where we want to be." This ultimately is what will defeat Wokeism: Nature and Reality will always have the final vote. These two decisive forces will increasingly flex their muscles and demand their say as Wokeism gets ever crazier.

A final point concerning objective moral values. What has always amused me about the Wokeists, despite their claims that all values are relative, is how thoroughly absolutist they are. In a single breath, they'll tell you that you are a fascist if you believe there are fixed, eternal values, are then go on to say how it is absolutely certain that there are 57 genders. Not much relativism there! As anyone, like myself, who has crossed these crazies knows, these supposed stormtroopers of relativism are among the most absolutist people on the planet.

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