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>>> Personally, I think secular philosophers were tricked into giving up the one tool or razor that would have kept them from drowning in the hall of mirrors fl
by A4ET8a8uTh0 5y ago
>>> Personally, I think secular philosophers were tricked into giving up the one tool or razor that would have kept them from drowning in the hall of mirrors flooded with bullshit that their field has become, and that is the question, "is this philosophy, ideology, or critical theory designed to deceive and subordinate us to others, and if so, who, how, and to what end?"
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If you just take a cryptanalyst or a hackers mindset to it and ask, "am I being deceieved?" the whole secular dialectic materialist edifice crumbles. I would argue that this question is also necessarily theistic, as it presupposes truth, and a belief in truth is proof of a belief in something divine by which truth can be measured or compared. That is how fragile this stuff is.
This probably one of the most insightful things I have read on HN in a good while in terms of dealing with bs, which seems to be a staple of the era we live in. Sometimes all it takes is to question the motive of the message to peel the onion.