Recontextualization

[Shakazulu]

From what I understand of recontextualization is ; mind fucks are like pieces to a puzzle. The more mind fucked you get from successfully having a holistic view, the more the puzzle is put together 

Edited July 24, 2018 by Shakazulu

[fluidmonolith]

@Shakazulu

But can you be certain that a mind fuck will lead you any closer to truth? Couldn't it possibly just as well lead you further away from truth?

Leo gives an example in this video of a starry sky, in which we are told (by science) that the dim, numerous lights are other stars much like our own sun. But having not seen them in detail ourselves, we are simply choosing to accept that context, or explanation, for the dim lights in the sky. But suppose we did look through the Hubble telescope personally (if that were possible) to see distant stars at higher magnification. We may be mind fucked upon perceiving those dim little lights in much more detail. But is it not just context as well that we believe what we see with our eyes to be true? Or what we hear with our ears? Or even what we think with our brains?

If I believe that mind fucks bring me closer to truth, then isn't that also context rather than content? I don't mean to be disagreeable, but I'm just not certain yet how we can say that belief in authorities is just context while simultaneously saying that believing in our own perceptions (e.g seeing stars through a telescope for ourselves) is content. 

 

[Shakazulu]

@fluidmonolith perhaps direct experience can make you believe in content? I'm not sure either I guess because facts can also be undermined 

[Leo Gura]

@fluidmonolith Obviously you don't ascertain truth via degree of mindfuck. That would be as silly as trying to ascertain truth via how many dollars it can earn you in the marketplace.

A deep truth will often be a mindfuck, but not vice versa.

[Cameron]

It’s not true because it’s a mind fuck. It’s just, truths can be a mind fuck...

[Shakazulu]

@Cameron but isn't truth what we're looking for?

[Shakazulu]

Leo said something that stuck out to me in the video. His line about the possibility of aliens jerking off to us, some humans are into animal porn so who knows