i did beautiful work in philosophy today. it felt spiritually uplifting to see it all come together. So simply. So elegantly. So completely. I was exhausted. the answer is so trivially simple that it is hard to understand how it isn’t obvious. The truth is enough. But when we say that, it I mean truthful speech is enough.
I can pretend speak the truth, but that is not possible.
I can speak as a vector for the pretense of the truth.
speak truthfully, which is possible
speak incompetently and with error,
speak as a vector for error and deception,
And, lastly,
speak as a deceiver.
And the problem is, that speaking truthfully is unnatural to man – it is a skill. it’s difficult. And without the assistance of skills, norms and normative langue of truth, that assists us in speaking truthfully, it is nearly impossible for moral man, even if he tries.
And the incentive for cunning man is so great to display his cunning he rarely grasps that he is himself an immoral man, creator of deception and obscurantism. He fools himself, fools others, and they become vectors for folly.
Speaking truthfully is an art. Grammar, Rhetoric, and Propertarianism – including operationalism – make it extremely difficult to both speak sensibly and untruthfully at the same time.
Our problem in government — which after FIVE HARD YEARS OF WORK I have finally got my arms around well enough to write down in simple terms — is that it was originated as a jury that approved or denied proposals submitted as theories. In construction of government, we combined theorist, jury and management, then theorist, jury, management, and staff; and lastly theorists, jury, management, staff, academy and church – all into the same body. And we expect this vast bureaucracy to function in our interests. Worse, we apply the jury system to representation – which must be the worst idea in human history.
THE PROBLEM IS ACTUALLY EASY TO FIX.
more later…
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-06 14:59:00 UTC