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There is a sudden weakness in the West – rushing to fill the void are the people who know everything. Those who have the comfort inducing certainty virus. I am searching for the nodes – where does this certainty lie?<\/p>\n
Every certainty seems to rest on a little self referential loop hidden somewhere in the chain of logic. It has made itself invisible to the host brain – only others can see it, but it is almost impossible to be seen by one who has it.<\/p>\n
The joke is that every logical structure needs to have its foundation in something. So we place that root wherever it *feels* best. You can’t logic away the feeling – the lived life itself cultivates the soil, further entrenching it. It is a cultural inheritance.<\/p>\n
Logic is only one way to live a dream anyway. Whatever logic is used by the zealot is piecemeal, disconnected. But a daily ritual can bring a coherance to it. Coherent logics are like the crystalline jewels set in the handle of an amorphous gold dagger.<\/p>\n
“What’s good for me is good” is a kind of circular reasoning (good being self referential here) which lies at the heart of many of our actions, and drives global capitalism – both the capitalist and the purchaser of goods at the market are driven by self interest.<\/p>\n
“[my] God is Great” is also circular – ‘Great’ being part of the definition of a god. The personal connexion is taken for granted but of course shows the self interested link.<\/p>\n
“Truth is what is logically true” underlies many lines of rational enquiry – woven into science ultimately.<\/p>\n
Closely linked\u2014”the real is what can be observed” which has a sort of faith in material things, defined as ‘real’, and the reality of observations.<\/p>\n
“The apocalypse is nearly upon us” is patently true, I cannot see how to refute this. It is perhaps the most dangerous meme of them all, and self-fulfilling.<\/p>\n
These ideas need churches.<\/p>\n
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