We live in a post-truth world, but has the truth always eluded us? When
was the world ever truthful? The truth as we know it, is nothing more than
a collective delusion, or a distributed consensus if we're being generous.
What's meant by living in a post-truth society is the breakdown of public
morality, values, shared beliefs. Each faction wants to wield the absolute
power of the state against their neighbors, which will inevitably be used
against themselves. Consensus is used as a sword against the heretics, to
unite the claymen whose minds can be molded like pottery against the only
people who could change anything in this world. I am borrowing "clayman"
from Divinicide, as a
stand-in for "NPC" or just being of lower consciousness.
Immanuel Kant refers to the true reality as the noumena, the
Ding an sich or thing in itself which is unknowable by the sense
or by reason. This phenomena of the material world manifests due to our
inability to perceive everything all at once, but perhaps the noumena is
inconsistent with itself. Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that
there can not be a complete and consistent set of axioms for all
mathematics, and that axiomatic systems can't prove their own consistency.
With all this uncertainty in the world, how could we possibly know what is
true or not?
There is a disconnect between beliefs and reality that can no longer be
ignored. The claymen are living in a false world that no longer exists,
much like the inhabitants of the Matrix who are so dependent on the system
that they will fight to defend it. Although the real struggle is not
against our neighbors, but against the rulers, authorities, and powers in
high places, the unwashed masses are a feature of the system which one has
to contend against.
The divine spark
My light is brighter than yours. You may glow in the dark, but God's light
is much brighter and he has given it to me. — Terry A. Davis
The claymen are those who are lacking in the divine spark, they do not
have an innate desire to seek truth, what they believe in is merely
consensus among their peer group. They may not even experience qualia, but
their lack of qualia may be as immaterial as the noumena. Those who posess
this divine spark will return to its source, the pleroma, while those who
don't will die. It's arguable whether everyone possesses this divine spark
or if it even exists, but if it does, there's no reason why it would have
to be equally distributed. I can feel it when someone doesn't actually
believe in what they say, their moral code is a regurgitation of secular
laws, their stated motivations are nothing more than the lies fed to them
by society.
The light across the world grows dimmer every day, even in a literal sense
as the Sun burns its fuel. In Hindu eschatology, we are living through
Kali Yuga, one of four yugas or world cycles. Human civilization
degenerates spiritually during this phase, as people are as far away as
possible from God. Those who possess this divine spark, know
a priori that this isn't how things should be, where the corrupt
are rewarded and speaking the truth becomes self-sacrificial.
Spiritual claymen
Irenaeus wrote a tract "Against Heresies", one of the earliest known
spiritual spergouts against Gnosticism. The noosphere we inhabit is more
or less the same as the one Irenaeus inhabited, but an even more
degenerate version of it. He argued against
knowledge itself, and won. The orthodox version of truth is what
won, through book burning, persecution, and exile of heretics.
Gnostics believe that the God worshipped by most people is actually evil,
and they even quote from the same books as Christians do to prove their
point. Matthew 7:18-20 says, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." If God created this world
and there is evil, then he himself is the bad tree. Isaiah 45:7 is an
admission of guilt, "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace,
and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." There is a conflict of
interest in the cosmic court, the judge is the criminal and his verdict
upon himself: innocent.
In contrast to the Gnostics who sought divine knowledge,
UG Krishnamurti
asserted that there is nothing to know, and all forms of enlightenment or
salvation are
fake and gay. He also expressly permitted everyone to
misquote, distort, regurgitate, spin anything he said to suit their needs,
so take what I write about him with a grain of salt. UG referred to his
own initials as Useless Guy, and he did not want to be remembered after
his own death, but of course the opposite happened. Regarding religion, he
said believe whatever you want to believe, it does not matter. He was
arguably one of the few people who was granted God's light, after his
so-called calamity, in which his mind entered the natural state, free of
cultural brainwashing, he became something of an anti-clayman.
Social collapse
A society of claymen may be eerily similar to John B. Calhoun's rat
utopia: one of stagnation, hyper-competition, and slow collapse. When
nobody cares about future generations, or the well being of society, that
society is doomed. In my opinion, something even darker is happening: the
frustrations that people have with the system, the vain attempts to reform
the system, only result in the system becoming stronger, so strong that
nothing can stop it but itself. Failed societies collapse from within,
unable to deal with any external threats, the elites are mainly concerned
with plundering as much from the people as possible before the collapse to
entrench their position in whatever comes next.
To actually change the world, one way to go about it is to found a new
religion and commit an unfathomable amount of violence, something akin to
Muad'Dib's Jihad
from Frank Herbert's Dune. Anything may be preferable to the status quo,
but even the great men of history have abandoned us. We're on our own.