The denial of reality must be totalitarian

[JimG]

“Truth-telling is being criminalized, even such obvious, scientific truth-telling as that a man cannot turn into a woman. This isn’t a matter of obscure theology or subjective personal feelings.”

–Lydia McGrew

http://whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2019/04/the_denial_of_reality_must_be.html

 

[ontheway1]

Humanity fails to realize that it is in the process of being evicted from the garden of Eden. The serpent is a liar, and this is why truth is being supressed and criminalized. Eve has just accepted the apple and is now seducing Adam. And we know how this story ends.

 

[Wesrock]

I wrote this for another thread on another forum, but it’s relevant here.

Today’s pop-morality is nihilist in that it rejects notions of mind-independent right and wrong. It’s also existentialist in that the mantra running through all of culture is that, in this nihilist world, we define our own meaning and purpose in life. Entirely. The past couple decades have really lead to a revolution in perception such that popular culture now believes the mind defines reality, the perception of self and identity is tantamount. It’s a meme, but we’re in the world where there is no Truth, just “my truth” and “her truth” and so on.

Couple that with liberal philosophical tradition, which was once grounded in the notion that humans qua humans had intrinsic rights, but is now being applied in a world where rights do not belong to people by nature but are conferred by social contract only, if even that, and are all ultimately meaningless outside of whatever value I or you as individuals attribute to them.

I am arguing from a position where the world, values, purpose, right and wrong, truth are mind-independent. Of course individuals can set personal goals, but humans qua humans have ultimate ends. We shouldn’t conform reality to our minds, we should conform our minds to reality.

 

[IQ170]

I am arguing from a position where the world, values, purpose, right and wrong, truth are mind-independent.

It would be correct if you included the word: “SOME” in front of “some” of your words. The “world” exists objectively, but “some” of its features or attributes are subjective, and as such they are subject to individual interpretation or opinion. To separate the the reality into these two subsets (objective and subjective) we need the proper epistemology.