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Lyotard defined post-modernism as the end of the search for grand meta-narrative explanations of Reality. I discussed this in The Ultimate Guide To Post-Modernism - Part 1, but it's good to study some of the source material deeper. So here you go:

It is funny how post-modernists want to claim that there cannot be one over-arching description of Reality, and that such a thing would be totalitarian and oppressive. Yet Reality itself is obviously One unified thing, and this Unity is not tyrannical and exclusionary but all-inclusive of diversity. Reality itself is the material embodiment of the solution to the diversity problem. Reality is diversity actualized.

The genius of Reality's ultimate structure is that it successfully integrates infinite diversity without being some toxic, oppressive dictatorship. How is that achieved? Well, it's complicated, but to oversimplify it: selflessness. Oppressive dictatorship is solved by eliminating the self. No self, no tyranny. What a beautiful solution. The solution is ontological. If the self is finite, then it becomes oppressive towards anything outside of itself. But if the self is infinite, then it is identical to everything, it has no outside of itself, so it treats all things as itself.

Why is God not a tyrant? Because God is identical to all things, so it has no impulse to favor one thing over another. There is a profound lesson here for leaders and politicians in how to govern benevolently. The function of healthy governance is to integrate wide diversity. But this isn't just wokeness, this is ontological. The function of healthy governance is to incorporate more REALITY, more TRUTH. Sick and toxic governance is too selfish to do that. You can see how Trump and MAGA are literally too selfish to co-exist with broader truth. A dense finite self like Trump becomes a tyrant by demonizing anything that it considers other to itself and its narrow, biased survival agenda.

I find it fascinating that there is a connection at all between the ultimate structure of Reality (ontology) and human governance. That's a remarkable outcome. It's as if studying atomic physics revealed the solution for how to structure government. You wouldn't expect that. But such is the beauty and power of holism. Unholistic approaches miss the discovery of such deep and counter-intuitive connections. Which is why I hammer on holism so much.

In order to govern and lead properly, you must be God-like. Governance and leadership is not a superficial thing like narcissistic people think it is. It's really about cultivating a proper relationship to Reality/Truth. You can't govern or lead properly from a position of falsehood and denial of Reality. MAGA is, quite simply, denial of Reality. That's why it's so toxic and corrupt. When people collectively choose to deny Reality, what results is tyranny. But they don't care enough about truth to see this connection.

Cultivating a proper relationship to Truth is the basis for all healthy human life. That's why I hammer on epistemology so much. Without epistemology humans veer into pathological ways of thinking and being. You can see this across all of history and the globe. How rare it is to have leadership who actually place truth first. It is so rare that people have forgotten it's even possible.

When the public doesn't value truth, how can they elect leaders who do? In a democracy, untruthful leaders are just an organic reflection of untruthful citizenry. The point is, our political problems are so much deeper than people realize. Political problems are really spiritual problems. Sick spirituality leads to sick politics. And atheism also leads to sick politics. This isn't theoretical, you see it playing out in the news every day.

I hope you see how all this stuff profoundly interconnects.

I recommend you watch this. This is a very basic introduction to philosophy of science. So you get a sense of how the epistemology of science is thought about in universities. It's not deep relative to my work, but it's important to review the basics so you can appreciate how limited it is. It is important to understand what my work is critiquing and responding to. I want you to study how scientists understand what science is, so you can more appreciate how limited it is. But this is not about debate, this is about pure understanding.

This is an excellent summary of the post-modernist philosopher Jean Baudrillard's work. I recommend watching this whole video. I touched on his work a bit in my The Ultimate Guide To Post-Modernism - Part 2, but I didn't have time to do it justice.

I want to add an important but overlooked point. Today's science and academia has become its own simulacrum of sense-making and truth-seeking — its own totalitarian Disneyland. Science and academia have become simulations of themselves. There are even these science-clowns who parade themselves across social media, debating, debunking, and promoting the totalitarian Disneyland that science has become, without an ounce of self-awareness, sniffing their own farts. Science and academia have become a corrupt, incestuous circle-jerk. And, ironically, post-modern philosophy has also devolved into that, with post-modern philosophers jerking each other off as a profession. It's all a very professional, respectable form of intellectual incest and ontological bankruptcy.

What is Harvard but a totalitarian Disneyland?

See, it's obvious that Twitter and the 24-hour TV news cycle are self-serving, reality-constructing bubbles. But it's not as obvious with a place like Harvard. Which is why I underscore this point. The situation is even worse than Baudrillard knew. And to my knowledge, I don't think Baudrillard provided a solution or alternative. Our work here is the real solution to this Sense-Making Crisis. Mankind is drowning in mindless, epistemically and spiritually bankrupt, reality-construction. That is what my work aims to solve. That's why I'm a bit forceful about it, because we have so much simulacrum to cut through to get to the spiritual gold.

Civilization is a hypnotic Carnival of mindless survival, serving no point other than to advance itself. That is why no amount of success within the Carnival is ever truly satisfying. You can work like a rented mule for 40 years and become a billionaire, but at the end of the day you are just a zombie in the Carnival parade, and your spirit is withered from decades of mindless labor.

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I recommend you buy one of these timed lock boxes if you trip regularly. Use it to create extra safety for yourself. Place your phone, car keys, chemicals, and any dangerous items in it for safe keeping while you trip. This lets you trip worry-free. The lock box has a digital timer that you set that unlocks the box. This allows you to eliminate distractions and dangerous activities like texting, social media posting, re-dosing, driving, etc. You don't want to have internet access while you trip. You can eliminate internet access by unplugging your internet router and locking it away. If your phone has a removable SIM card you can still keep using your phone but remove and lock away the SIM card. Don't be texting your family and friends while high. Don't be emailing your boss while high.

For example, if you're going to do a serious trip, set the timer for a couple of hours, lock any dangerous objects inside your car or safe: SIM card, internet router, knives, swords, firearms, alcohol, chemicals, whatever — and then place your car/safe keys in the lock box. When the lock box unlocks you can access all your stuff again, once you're safely down from your trip. This way you don't need to buy a large lock box. All you really need to lock is one key. It's especially helpful to prevent yourself from re-dosing mid trip, which is dangerous because you won't be measuring your dose carefully while high.

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Please trip safely. It's better to be careful than sorry.

You can also use this lock box to eliminate distractions from work. Lock away your phone or internet router for 5 hours to get some serious work done. This works much better than installing gimmicky apps.

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