>>21606936

Part 1/2

I found this thread on X today. Seems correct.

You may have noticed that people who are wrong, especially when doing wrong, not just factually wrong, often attack people telling the truth. That's Error hating Truth.

Why does Error hate Truth? A borrowed lesson from my friend the Honorable Bob McEwan. 🧵

Imagine we're in an auditorium, and I say the auditorium is 50 feet wide, and you say it's 60 feet, and someone else says it's 80 feet. Obviously, we cannot all be correct (although we could all be wrong).

Now suppose we don't have any way to measure the room but decide it's important to figure out. I sit there and give my best arguments for 50 feet, and you argue for 60, and the other guy argues for 80, and we appeal to this and that and talk and talk and talk.

It's all well and good so long as we argue it out, I guess, each gaining support for our case from the audience in the room, which might make us feel good or even give us power to try to call a "consensus" view that shows that we're right.

Once that power and status element enter the situation, though, all doesn't stay well or good for long. In fact, our arguments will probably get uglier, and we might motivate our factions against one another. Persuasion might give way to force where it fails to generate consensus

Now suppose someone else walks in the room with the best and worst possible thing: a tape measure. And that person stretches the tape from wall to wall and actually measures the room, finding out the truth of how wide it is. What about that?

Maybe the room is actually 57 feet across, so everyone was wrong. If we're all just dispassionate fact-finders interested in the width of the room, that's fine. We'd all humble ourselves, say it was our best guess given the circumstances, and accept the truth.

But if we've built power or status, or acted badly, or forced consensus around our view, we aren't going to like to see that tape measure at all. In fact, we might accuse the person holding the tape of being a problem or of measuring wrong on purpose or any number of things.

We don't want to be wrong in front of the crowd, especially if our status and reputation are on the line. If we have the power, we might even turn our faction against the person with the tape measure and force them not to measure or to lie about the measurement.

Why? As Bob says, because in the instant that measurement is taken, everyone in the room suddenly knows we're wrong. Each of us being wrong becomes common knowledge in the room, and we're humiliated to the degree we hung our hat on our belief.

Thus, Error hates Truth.

Truth can only be sought in humility and dispassionately, and truth ALWAYS humbles the haughty and lays low the mighty. Nothing cuts across illegitimate or arbitrary power like the truth, and the truth is completely ruthless in cutting across our pride and arrogance.

Truth is also available to anyone who is willing to do the work to seek it; in this case by getting a tape measure and measuring the room. Thus, truth equalizes against all assertions of power, and its power is supreme even without ever asserting itself. It just IS.

>>21607168

Part 2/2

Once the truth is out there, there's no putting it back without making the situation worse for Error. Why? Because everyone who knows the truth and knows it's known will see the coverup, which discredits Error further, no matter how much force is applied in maintenance of Error.

This raises many important points, but all but one is obvious enough to leave to you, Dear Reader. I'm sure you get them all, though many are deep to the deepest levels and should put you in a holy state of thought about who and what we are and what we have before us.

The one that isn't obvious is the crucial point about common knowledge. Common knowledge is the mover here, not the truth. Only when the truth becomes common knowledge does it expose, obliterate, and humble Error. Let's look at it more closely.

Common knowledge isn't just what's known; it's what's known to be known. This is a key and important difference in terms of motivating change. People will go with the crowd, or more often power (sometimes embodied in the crowd or consensus), most of the time.

That is, Error can flex its power, illegitimate as it may be, to convince people who have private knowledge of the truth to keep it quiet. People who measure the room or see it measured can be coerced to lie or stay silent or only whisper the truth to their friends quietly.

So long as the truth is not common knowledge, people will tend to follow power, even if its in Error, even if it's just the lack of wisdom of the crowd, even if it's led by nefarious forces (who might appear in sheep's clothing). Private knowledge motivates no change.

When the truth becomes common knowledge, though, say by everyone seeing the measurement at the same time, only then is Error properly exposed, forcing change. In this case, all three "experts" are regarded as mistaken at best and frauds at worst.

In the moment when the truth (or even another Error) becomes common knowledge (or common belief, aka consensus), that new point of common knowledge will set the stage for what happens next. If it's the truth, that's good, indeed righteous (see those deep lessons mentioned above).

If a new Error becomes common belief, however, you will have change that follows the new Error, which will also hate Truth to the degree that it is imbued with power and status that it wishes to keep, which will be high if the new Error was deliberately placed.

George Soros's theory of change is called "reflexivity," and it uses a tool called "fertile fallacies" to move the course of history by generating Error that is productive of operational or desired change. Leftism, which covets power, hates Truth and sows self-serving Error.

Invoking Soros doesn't mean this is a problem located only on what we usually consider the Left. A deceptive false "Right" also exists (Right Hand of the Left) that uses this Leftist covetousness for power to its own convictions and operational drives, but it's still Leftism.

Error is Error no matter who is pushing it or for what nominal purposes, and Error deliberately sown is almost always done in coveting power. It's still Error; it's still evil; it's still Leftism; and it will still fight like hell against Truth and whoever brings it to bear.

Empowered Error must stop the Truth from becoming common knowledge so it can keep Error as common belief, which is the deception at the seat of its basis for (illegitimate) power. This is very deep. The Commandment gets this right. It's a lot to contemplate.

James Lindsay, anti-Communist

https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1835124696649543857

And this, folks, is why certain powerful people want to censor what we say. They know that they're full of sh*t. They just don't want everyone else to know that.

>>21606941

Kinda wonder what exactly is happening at those concerts that concert-goers can't recall being at.