Posted on 04/28/2017 7:34:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Truth is pliable in Trumpland.
In March, the president fired off a tweet accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower. Republican members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, dismissed the claim. But the Trump team doubled down, writing off media reports and insisting that evidence of wiretapping would soon surface. It didn’t.
We’re used to this pattern by now: The president dresses up useful lies as “alternative facts” and decries uncomfortable realities as “fake news.” Stoking conservative passion and liberal fury, Trump stirs up confusion about the veracity of settled knowledge and, through sheer assertion, elevates belief to the status of truth.
Trump’s playbook should be familiar to any student of critical theory and philosophy. It often feels like Trump has stolen our ideas and weaponized them.
For decades, critical social scientists and humanists have chipped away at the idea of truth. We’ve deconstructed facts, insisted that knowledge is situated and denied the existence of objectivity. The bedrock claim of critical philosophy, going back to Kant, is simple: We can never have certain knowledge about the world in its entirety. Claiming to know the truth is therefore a kind of assertion of power....
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“Truth is pliable in Trumpland.”
Now that is just downright laughable. I think the nyt is projecting.
Just reading the title you know it’s garbage. Why post it?
Quoting Kant was their first mistake.
Then why did you click on it?
"Too often we collectively think that we have “come of age”, scoffing at previous eras as unenlightened, less intelligent, sexually immature, and repressed. We confuse technology with wisdom and conclude that because we can split the atom, have been to the moon, and carry incredibly advanced gadgets, that we can simply dismiss the collected wisdom of the ages. Ancient biblical and Church teaching, which has stood the test of time, is dismissed as irrelevant, even scoffed at as merely the teachings of 'dead white men.'" - Monsignor Charles PopeToday's so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders, and ungrounded in Constitutional principles.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
This guy is doing the same thing in his comments on Trump that the philosophers did in writing about truth: he’s lying.
The idiots just don’t want to accept that Trump is right FAR more often than wrong.
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was twice as sloshed as Schlegel.
There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach yer ‘bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am.”
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed -
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he’s pissed.
To ask the question I asked.
Excellent article...
The left only after two years is starting to figure Trump out...
It has to be repeated, it seems, again and again. Articles like this are opposition research. If we don’t know what the opposition is saying and thinking, how can we counter it?
This used to be basic FReeper knowledge.
Is the author asserting this is true? To paraphrase Artistole, as soon as a skeptic against truth opens their mouth, they contradict themselves and lose any right to be taken seriously. Deconstruction was a 1960s philosophical fad that was always full of holes and has been demolished by critics in subsequent decades. Unfortunately many aging leftists learned this type of tripe in their freshman philosophy classes and it's wormed its way into our academic and legal systems. This type of thinking is incompatible with the premises the Constitution is based on and needs to be met with a vigorous counter-offensive in our schools if our republic and culture are to survive.
To state truth is relative is to speak incoherently, as many have been trying to point out to these progressivists for a long time.
What Kant, Foucault and the rest really wanted to do was do away with God, and the method they devised for this goal was to do away with language.
What they weren’t bright enough to understand was that written or spoken attempts to do away with language is like disassembling your vessel while it keeps you afloat on the ocean.
Bingo!!!!!
To state truth is relative is to speak incoherently, as many have been trying to point out to these progressivists for a long time.
What Kant, Foucault and the rest really wanted to do was do away with God, and the method they devised for this goal was to do away with language.
What they weren’t bright enough to understand was that written or spoken attempts to do away with language is like disassembling your vessel while it keeps you afloat on the ocean.
This article is useless without pictures.
But but........
“College Students Claim Objective ‘Truth’ Is A Racist ‘Myth’”
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Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of ‘subjectivity vs. objectivity’ as a means of silencing oppressed peoples. The idea that there is a single truth–’the Truth’–is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain. This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples.
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/15504/college-students-say-truth-racist-myth-amanda-prestigiacomo#
This is a concept that I have been seeing gain traction for a number of years. It looks as though it’s reaching a “tipping point into insanity”.
God help us all.
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