Look how ineffectual the social critique in terms of consumption is. Being a consumer is surely not a bad thing; it's wonderful to have comforts. "Consumption"

Look how ineffectual the social critique in terms of consumption is. Being a consumer is surely not a bad thing; it's wonderful to have comforts. "Consumption" then is not a negative, but a formal dialetheia. There seems to be a kind of sense that refusing material comforts is a kind of asceticism, but accepting them is like "selling out;" so in practice people don't think about it. From word origin, a dialetheia is a combination of a truth (aletheia) and a contradictory falsehood (letheia); letheia is Greek for forgetfulness. A dialetheia is a truth the telling of which makes you forget. Try to think of the truth as a function defined on a manifold. The definition of the function allows mostly true statements and mostly false to be very near in the distance measure of the manifold. Increased curvature comes from energy applied to some point in the manifold. The construction of the appearance of a dialetheia comes from a point with very high curvature where truths and falsehoods are very close together. If a singularity could exist in this space, it would be a dialetheia, a limit point the approach to which could be made from either truths or falsehoods. While Godel's theorem is not a dialetheia, it appears like a dialetheia in everyday terms because we freely pass from the statement "the thing is proved" to "the thing is true," that is we assume consistency in discourse. Dialetheias only have the appearance of true concepts, and can't exist in actuality. The concept of dialetheias is itself a dialetheia. When positing apparent dialetheias, it's important to show where the contradiction is and why it is a formal contradiction. The point of this argument being that, "consumption" and other dialetheias are self-contradictory concepts designed to control people. Dialetheias probably also play some role in existence. In other words, a dialetheia is the appearance of something out of joint in things, a state of affairs that can't exist in the presumed exactitude of the Platonic realm. This out-of-jointness sets the world apart from the ambient Platonic realm, making it "step forward" and exist. It's like a slave leaving his caste under the rule of an absolute caste system. He says, "Certainly I am a slave, but nevertheless, I won't be a slave."