THE LIES OF THE IRRATIONALS Conflating fact, value and preference : Marx and Mar

THE LIES OF THE IRRATIONALS

Conflating fact, value and preference : Marx and Marxists

Conflating action and perception : Heidegger and Postmoderns

Lies, lies, lies. All lies.

If someone cannot state something to you in operational language they are either lying to you, or they don’t know what they’re talking about.

LIFE CYLCE OF OF THEORIES

0) PROBLEM: I may understand a problem.

1) THEORY: I may have a theory of how to solve the problem.

2) TEST OF INTERNAL CONSISTENCY: I man be able to construct a ‘tool’ for the solution of a problem.

3) TEST OF EXTERNAL CORRESPONDENCE: I may be able to use a tool, and understand how it came to be.

4) PRODUCTION (HABITUATION): I may use a tool but not understand how it came to be to either solve the problem or avoid the problem.

5) DISTRIBUTION (SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION): I may may unknowingly rely on a tool to avoid a problem, AND NOT know how that tool came to be, or the problem.

6) COMMODITIZATION (METAPHYSICAL ASSUMPTION): I may be ignorant of a tool, not how to use it, or how it came to be, but exist in a world where all of us avoid the problem for which the tool was intended and designed.

The problem is that by the time we get to COMMODITIZATION, I’m know sure we can call what we’re doing ‘knowledge’. It’s just a habit. An informational instinct, rather than biological instinct.