Theme: Civilization

SUGGESTION RE: “LOSS OF METAPHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS”.

@Dr Jordan Peterson

While other civilizations may have been narratively monolithic, the church was merely one component of the system of cooperation between the classes that constituted the informal structure of western civilization.

(a) The estates of the realm existed under manorialism (cooperation between classes) replacing more costly aristocracy, freemen, and slaves. Each estate often spoke a different language, each used a different narrative, and each a different ‘scripture’. Latin remained the language of the intellectual class. Christianity itself provided a convenient excuse to justify Aristocratic Expansion and their heroic cult and mythos. The common law remained as the primary means of decidability. The christian religion remained as a public religion. The ancient myths and legends remained as the religion of home and hearth. The west has always been poly-philosophical if we categorize religion as a sub-category of philosophy. Why? Because western civilization never engaged in conflation, but preserved the estates of the realm. Hence why there are three cults in china (Confucius, LaoTzu, Budda), the castes in india, the estates in the west, the three classes of islam under one book, and the single class of judaism under one book and one set of laws. But the west has many many books, and only the common law, the philosophy of the intellectual class, and the religion of the lower classes persist. The philosophy of the aristocratic classes was only captured in narrative and handed down from father to son for millennia.

(b) anglo enlightenment causes chain of events that undermines the unwritten cult of the aristocracy (sovereignty).

(c) liberal revolutions undermine the contract between the aristocracy and the middle classes (rule of law becomes discretionary law)

(d) proletarian revolutions undermine the contract between the middle classes and the lower classes.

(e) church is weakened by (a)+(b) and put to death by darwin.

(f) Poincare(mathematics), Maxwell(science), Dawin(anthropology), Spencer(social sci), Karl Menger(econ), Nietzche(aesthetics) and the pre-rapaelites (art), Wagner(theatre and opera),and others try to provide a new ‘map’ on the ancient model, in scientific rather than rationalism, reason, and platonism.

(g) Cantor (mathematical platonism), Boaz(anthropology and sociology), Marx (economics and sociology), Mises (economics), Freud (psychology), Adorno+Co (aesthetics), combined with democracy, women’s entry into the franchise, and the academy’s seizure of moral authority from the church by selling diplomas rather than indulgences – create a competing utopian suite of narratives ready to sell to the new members of the consumer classes. The entire cosmopolitan corpus however, is composed of nothing but pseudoscience.

(h) Early soviet successes despite the greatest human death and destruction in history, and the soviet emphasis of spending 85% of its intelligence budget on funding intellectuals who advance the Frankfurt school’s propaganda for the purpose of subversion (creating conflict between the classes), plus a compliant intellectual class, seeking even greater wealth, status, and power, succeed in capturing the narrative from the Continentals, and solidify it with the defeat of the Fascists (who are themselves merely a reaction to the same pseudosciences and breakdown of class cooperation.)

(h) Postwar economic boom in the states allows funding of expansion of the academy by turning ‘schools’ in to ‘colleges’ and ‘colleges’ into ‘universities’. And profits from the sale of pseudoscientific religion to a generation lacking empirical traditions.

(g) Produces crisis of the 1960s, followed by reaction in the late 1970s as policy failures accumulate, yet the movement had been successful for the first time in history, in replacing the martial aristocracy from membership in the competition for power, not realizing that they had merely replaced the military industrial complex’s productivity and empirical epistemology with the academy, media, state complex and their pseudoscientific epistemology.

(h) 1999’s surprising bow shot by Pinker provides the first substantial scientific counter to expand upon the previous generation’s political retrenchment against pseudoscientific politics. From 2000 until the present we are incrementally expanding the criticism of the pseudosciences overthrowing and reforming the hard sciences, while the pseudoscientific academy’s three generations of professors, four generations of teachers, and first generation of ‘snowflakes’, comes into maturity. We have been assisted by the demonstrated failure of the Keynesian economic and mathematical pseudoscientific program, and the assumptions of ongoing prosperity that the progressive postwar narrative had been constructed upon.

(i) Today there are a number of us working in different fields to end the pseudoscientific era, and the destruction of reason.

WHAT’S THE POINT?

The point I want to get across here is that while other civilizations may have been narratively monolithic, the church was merely one component of the system of cooperation between the classes that constituted the informal structure of western civilization.

even today the fallacy of equalitarianism, equalitarian democracy, and universalism merely continue this utopian deceit. Instead of a market for exchanges between the classes provided by multiple houses of government and the church, we conduct a war of disinformation and deception because our method of government is not suitable for the construction of agreements – only defeats.

So while we have plenty of class narratives, scientific, philosophical, political, military, entrepreneurial, artisan, laborer, and dependent; and we have founding narratives: Indo European, Homeric, Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Arthur, and Germanic, Jeffersonian; and they all derive from the fight against the (middle) east (steppe and desert people), or their retaliation against Aristoracy (christianity, judaism, islam) and we have plenty of methods of argument: art, myth, literature, religion, philosophy, science, and law – And we still speak in a language comprised of three: latin-english for the intellectual class, ‘french-english’ for the middle class, and german-english for the common people, WE LACK THE NARRATIVE THAT EXPLAINS THE SYNTHESIS.

So that is the point I want to get across.

You cannot recreate christianity. The vulgar speech of the postmoderns, the ‘Church of TED’ and the ‘pseudoscientific academy/media/state complex, cannot be replaced with one institution.

We have a founding mythos.

We just need to talk about it scientifically, make pseudoscience illegal, and make suppression of scientific truth illegal. ( And that is what I have worked on for the past twenty years.) It turns out that it’s quite possible to use the law to demand warranties of due diligence on political speech(information) just as we demand warranties of due diligence on products and services. The law is exceptional at lie detection. We need only put it to work on detecting this category of lies.

The rest will sort itself out. We don’t have to DESIGN a solution. We have to design a PROHIBITION. The solution is already out there waiting to hatch.

Cheers

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine