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[–]StillLessons 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Objective truth still exists.

One truth is that the human instinct to obey authority is greater than all other considerations in ~90% of the population. My guess is this relates to evolutionary advantages to herd behavior in our species. So people must follow, according to our deepest instincts for survival. Unfortunately, as the leaders have commanded larger and larger herds, their interest has become completely dissociated from those they "lead". In other words, the leaders believe they and their fellow leaders represent a population with which they no longer share any common experience. The same is true in reverse: the population believes their leaders come from "the herd", when in fact there is nothing about their experience which permits "leaders" any true understanding of what the life of a "herd member" is actually about.

Whatever events happen in response to the actions of either group (leaders or herd) are perceived entirely differently by the two groups, and thus it appears "objective truth" is gone, because there are a minimum of two fundamentally different perspectives on whatever happens.

The events are still unique, so the truth exists. But the multiple perspectives on those events prevents most humans (either leader or herd member) from recognizing it in its simplest form without the layers of subjective meaning attached.

Orwell is absolutely correct to note that lies become history. What people write about what happened in the past need have no relationship with what actually happened. Probably the two have never been related.

We live in a world which will always be fundamentally unknown to us. If God has created a life after the one we know for when we die, perhaps we will learn the truth then. But there is no more way of knowing if that afterlife exists than there is to know the objective truth about our time and history during this life.

Be kind. Nobody knows more than you do, and nobody knows less.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

And you as I are ruled by five small chemicals in our inherited brain. So don't play this like you got any control.

You just wanted to contradict and THEN scratched your head about it.

This is saidit.

If you want more magic in just two characters (notice the detail of the number two here), you are very alone and even more locked-in than I am.

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Okay, I've tried to understand your comment about two characters, and I have failed. It sounds to me like you're on to something good, but it's gone over my head.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You can read all that online. Oxitocine, dopamine, serotonine and two more. Excuse me for having a senior moment here. There even is a book about how our brain developed, I believe.