OUR TOWER OF BABEL IS NOT LANGUAGE BUT LIES. The church held onto its lies, and

OUR TOWER OF BABEL IS NOT LANGUAGE BUT LIES.

The church held onto its lies, and died from it. The academy adopted new lies and prospered from it. The people tried to resurrect their ancient lies, they grasped and the old lies, they grasped at all manner of new lies, and others chose among each of them the most convenient lies. But because of these lies they were all ‘confused’.

They have rebuilt the Tower of Babel. This time, not only with different languages, but with different lies. They have no means of decidability. they cannot know what is true. So they preserve the costs that each person has invested in the lies that work for him or her. Each person protecting his purse-of-lies trying to find others with compatible lies to trade with them.

We cannot know the truth. We can rarely if ever know what is good. We can often know what we prefer, and if we work at it, know what is false.

But knowing what is false provides us with no guidance. We have no ‘authority’ to rely upon, or discount to take, and are stuck with our own devices. It is much easier to rally people around an opportunity that is false that can understand, and fall prey to, than it is to rally them for something that appears more costly – because the truth is often costly.

So I suspect, given the economics of peoples investment in that personal form of wealth we call ‘meaning’ but is largely a network of lies and errors, biasess, and deceits, that like the priests church, a lot of people, a lot of institutions, will have to die before the Tower of Lies is disassembled.

Men are not moral. They do not seek the truth. They seek acquisitions. And they seek those acquisitions at a discount. And the discount that they depend upon is their accumulated store of decidability we call prior understanding.