Post-positivist deconstruction is the cutting edge of ex-humanism...Postmodern dystopian film: Terminator (1984), The Truman Show (1997), Gattacca (1998), The Matrix (1999), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Island (2005). This genre has opened a new field for metaphysics. The classical metaphysics is mysticism (Kabbalah, Gnosticism, Sufism); the new metaphysics is an exploration of the nature, applications and implications of virtual reality as a man made metaphysical space, emergent in the post-fordist era. What is real ? "Real" is whatever we perceive "real" to be, but real has no verifiable intrinsic essence per se. "Real" is defined by language and symbols; dynamic narratives and images. "Real" can be constructed and de-constructed.
The postmodern understanding and internalization of the implications of relativity, perspective and perception (dubbed 'post-positivism') debunks the narrative of "cogito ergo sum". The contention that "I am" is only a thought. To state that "I am" because "I think" is self contradictory. "I am" has no objective existence because it is a thought (an idea) that has no material basis, as such it can not be considered evidence of existence. Ultimately, no one can know for certain if they exist or not. If "I" is a tought, then what is considered to be "THE SELF" has no objective existence. The idea of "The Self " is a subjective construct - not natural. Ergo: "Identity" is both meaningless and disposable. The element of psyche that hides behind the notion of "The Self" is an aggregate of, mostly contradictory, subjectivities. Perfect subjective consistency would be impossible for humans to attain because they will always lack total information awareness. "Personae" (how the group subject perceives the single subject), is an entirely disposable and projected subjectivity. Subjectivities are the product of the psychic interaction of the subject with dynamic narratives and symbols of a de-ontological and social nature. The dynamic narratives and sub-narratives that inform humans evolve as organisms evolve in relation to time and space, dynamic narratives are to humans what software applications are to machines.
Post-positivist deconstruction also has implications regarding the notion of Time-Space. "Past" and "Future" have no objective existence outside thought. The past is selective memory - memory that can be deleted or edited. The future is only projection - at best educated wishful thinking. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, for a valid reason. "History" is the selective narrative of selective memory - no historical or journalistic narrative can claim to represent "truth", as long as in context of constructing a given narrative of events the historian or journalist subjectively decides what information to present or omit. Because it is a subjective process, the decision to omit or present information in context of a narrative will always be influenced by biases of a social, cultural -or even political- nature. No existing historical or journalistic narrative is "truth" - there only exist competing narratives of "the past" or "current events". The notion of "the present", is problematic because it assumes that time-space is not dynamic, it is thus premised on a false view of static reality that denies ongoing organic transformation processes that, although not perceptible to humans, do take place - case in point the problem of quantum physics. The "laws of physics" as perceived by humans break down at the level of quanta... "the present" is constantly ceasing to be and becoming and there is no guarantee that what comes-to-be is "better" than what ceases-to-be. The notion of "better" (constitutive to "progress") is subjective. So back to the original questions: What is "Real" ? What is "Truth"? Is "Truth" the same as "Reality"? What is real is relative to perception and perceptions can be managed. What is truth is limited to available - always imperfect - information. Truth is not the same as reality, because the information that premises notions of truth is always imperfect. Perhaps the substitute for an answer that will never be discovered is to recall and accept the maxim of Socrates: "I do not know what I do not know".
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post-script:
Yesterday I understood that in Sweden, the managed appearance of "humanitarianism" is only a mask for xenophobic dislike of foreigners. The Swedish political class is very clever; they know that for geographical and historical reasons, latent xenophobia is part of the collective psychology in this society - like a hidden narrative in the collective subconscious. They focus group, they triangulate, they craft language and they spin it; they appeal to this latent fear of "the other" with targeted messages and coded symbols in order to collect votes. In Sweden, populism has been synthesized with perception management as a practical means to administer a nativist herd morality. The Swedish political class really believe in the narrative of "Sweden". They believe that it exists. The premise of all psychosis is to believe that a perception, that in fact has no material substance or basis, has a material substance and basis. Note that this is not a commentary on metaphysical belief systems, but a commentary on a perception that is popularly considered to be "materially true". Sweden is only a narrative, ultimately just an idea, and not a material entity. What "actually exists" in "material reality" are eight million blond people living on half a forested peninsula. Now I understand what Noam Chomsky meant when he defined the populism of the 20th century fascists and Bolsheviks as a dynamic application of "organic entity theories". The nationalism of the political class that governs the Swedish State is definitely organic, almost pathological. No wonder I am having so much trouble with the police... The anti-identity, anti-national narrative that I subscribe to is the living anti-thesis to the dynamic narrative the Swedish State promotes as a means to facilitate the collective management and control of the society. In entering into a post-collision jujitsu with the Swedish State, I have come to experience in situ what Nietzsche meant by the antagonism of Man against the Herd. Maybe the police are correct after all, when they say they must keep me under surveillance in a secured building in order to protect their society. I am a potentially disruptive element. I am Yin and the police are Yang. The Syndicalists and assorted leftists who associate with them are all wrong; it is not the cheap alcohol or the steady flow of welfare checks that keep the people loyal to the political class, and it is not the policy of "repressive tolerance" that maintains social cohesion. I am afraid it is much worse than that:
Swedish nationalism is a State-managed dynamic narrative that results in collective psychosis.
-veremos.
The postmodern understanding and internalization of the implications of relativity, perspective and perception (dubbed 'post-positivism') debunks the narrative of "cogito ergo sum". The contention that "I am" is only a thought. To state that "I am" because "I think" is self contradictory. "I am" has no objective existence because it is a thought (an idea) that has no material basis, as such it can not be considered evidence of existence. Ultimately, no one can know for certain if they exist or not. If "I" is a tought, then what is considered to be "THE SELF" has no objective existence. The idea of "The Self " is a subjective construct - not natural. Ergo: "Identity" is both meaningless and disposable. The element of psyche that hides behind the notion of "The Self" is an aggregate of, mostly contradictory, subjectivities. Perfect subjective consistency would be impossible for humans to attain because they will always lack total information awareness. "Personae" (how the group subject perceives the single subject), is an entirely disposable and projected subjectivity. Subjectivities are the product of the psychic interaction of the subject with dynamic narratives and symbols of a de-ontological and social nature. The dynamic narratives and sub-narratives that inform humans evolve as organisms evolve in relation to time and space, dynamic narratives are to humans what software applications are to machines.
Post-positivist deconstruction also has implications regarding the notion of Time-Space. "Past" and "Future" have no objective existence outside thought. The past is selective memory - memory that can be deleted or edited. The future is only projection - at best educated wishful thinking. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, for a valid reason. "History" is the selective narrative of selective memory - no historical or journalistic narrative can claim to represent "truth", as long as in context of constructing a given narrative of events the historian or journalist subjectively decides what information to present or omit. Because it is a subjective process, the decision to omit or present information in context of a narrative will always be influenced by biases of a social, cultural -or even political- nature. No existing historical or journalistic narrative is "truth" - there only exist competing narratives of "the past" or "current events". The notion of "the present", is problematic because it assumes that time-space is not dynamic, it is thus premised on a false view of static reality that denies ongoing organic transformation processes that, although not perceptible to humans, do take place - case in point the problem of quantum physics. The "laws of physics" as perceived by humans break down at the level of quanta... "the present" is constantly ceasing to be and becoming and there is no guarantee that what comes-to-be is "better" than what ceases-to-be. The notion of "better" (constitutive to "progress") is subjective. So back to the original questions: What is "Real" ? What is "Truth"? Is "Truth" the same as "Reality"? What is real is relative to perception and perceptions can be managed. What is truth is limited to available - always imperfect - information. Truth is not the same as reality, because the information that premises notions of truth is always imperfect. Perhaps the substitute for an answer that will never be discovered is to recall and accept the maxim of Socrates: "I do not know what I do not know".
***
post-script:
Yesterday I understood that in Sweden, the managed appearance of "humanitarianism" is only a mask for xenophobic dislike of foreigners. The Swedish political class is very clever; they know that for geographical and historical reasons, latent xenophobia is part of the collective psychology in this society - like a hidden narrative in the collective subconscious. They focus group, they triangulate, they craft language and they spin it; they appeal to this latent fear of "the other" with targeted messages and coded symbols in order to collect votes. In Sweden, populism has been synthesized with perception management as a practical means to administer a nativist herd morality. The Swedish political class really believe in the narrative of "Sweden". They believe that it exists. The premise of all psychosis is to believe that a perception, that in fact has no material substance or basis, has a material substance and basis. Note that this is not a commentary on metaphysical belief systems, but a commentary on a perception that is popularly considered to be "materially true". Sweden is only a narrative, ultimately just an idea, and not a material entity. What "actually exists" in "material reality" are eight million blond people living on half a forested peninsula. Now I understand what Noam Chomsky meant when he defined the populism of the 20th century fascists and Bolsheviks as a dynamic application of "organic entity theories". The nationalism of the political class that governs the Swedish State is definitely organic, almost pathological. No wonder I am having so much trouble with the police... The anti-identity, anti-national narrative that I subscribe to is the living anti-thesis to the dynamic narrative the Swedish State promotes as a means to facilitate the collective management and control of the society. In entering into a post-collision jujitsu with the Swedish State, I have come to experience in situ what Nietzsche meant by the antagonism of Man against the Herd. Maybe the police are correct after all, when they say they must keep me under surveillance in a secured building in order to protect their society. I am a potentially disruptive element. I am Yin and the police are Yang. The Syndicalists and assorted leftists who associate with them are all wrong; it is not the cheap alcohol or the steady flow of welfare checks that keep the people loyal to the political class, and it is not the policy of "repressive tolerance" that maintains social cohesion. I am afraid it is much worse than that:
Swedish nationalism is a State-managed dynamic narrative that results in collective psychosis.
-veremos.
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