On Truth

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

The Western World’s concept of objective truth was challenged by Karl Marx, who declared truth to be class truth. The capitalists had their truth, and the workers had their truth. The workers’ truth had more validity, because they were oppressed, whereas the capitalists’ truth was self-serving.

This assault on objective truth did not succeed except on a limited basis for a short time in the Soviet Union where Lysenko damaged Soviet biology and agriculture at the expense of a number of lives.

The assault on objective truth in the 21st century is race based and gender based. The races and genders have their own truths. The truths that have validity are those of the oppressed—people of color, feminists, transgendered, and sexual deviants. The truths without validity are those of the oppressors—white heterosexual males.

Objective truth based on facts and evidence is an alien concept to the young whose experiences of truth are learned emotional responses. The media know that they are lying in terms of objective truth, but as objective truth is a white construct that serves white interest it is an oppressor truth without validity.

Today in the media and in education the concept of a lie as a statement in conflict with objective truth is dying out. A lie is something that denies the race and gender truths of the oppressed.

In this kind of truth system evidence in the traditional sense hasn’t a place. In an emotion based system, evidence is the offense given by a statue, a word, a phrase, a historical reference, a painting. Consequently, it is impossible for a person who has an objective concept of truth to have a rational discussion with a person who has a race/gender concept of truth.

Aside from the problem of swearing in such a person to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it becomes impossible for a society, part of which has a scientific concept of truth and part of which has an emotional concept of truth, to talk to one another.

A society in which people cannot talk to each other is a society that falls apart.

A society in which objective truth is banished is a society without science.

You can see the dark age appearing on the horizon.

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13 Comments
overthecliff
overthecliff
December 24, 2020 11:28 am

You can ignore the truth but you can not ignore the consequences of ignoring the truth. Some one smarter than me said that but I donot know who it was.

diverdown
diverdown
  overthecliff
December 24, 2020 6:04 pm

OTC – the quote is from Ayn Rand.

Stucky
Stucky
December 24, 2020 11:48 am

“What is truth?”, asked Pilate. And even Jesus didn’t have an answer.

All truth is relative.

m
m
  Stucky
December 24, 2020 12:01 pm

All truth is relative.

And that’s an absolute truth, correct?

Stucky
Stucky
  m
December 24, 2020 1:02 pm

“And that’s an absolute truth, correct?”

Saying “all truth is relative” is false.

If that’s true, then things must be as I say they are, and I say it’s false. So, if it’s true, it’s false.

I hope that clears things up.

King James
King James
  Stucky
December 24, 2020 12:02 pm

John 3:5 – Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and [of] the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

John 8:32 – And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

John 14:6 – Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 16:13 – Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

John 17:17 – Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Romans 3:4 – God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Stucky
December 24, 2020 1:32 pm

Reality is not.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia
December 24, 2020 12:17 pm

This is why the US needs a divorce. The blue states need to live in their own truth and see how that works out for them. The blues need to create their own agricultural and industrial processes based on equity and feelings. Who needs that math and science shit when you have the TRUTH on your side. I’m sure their new truth-based civilization will flourish and be the envy of all the planet’s people.

Or maybe not.

bsquared
bsquared
December 24, 2020 12:51 pm

“Moving into 2021, we expect rates to hold steady but the key driver in the near term will be the trajectory of the Covid-19 pandemic and the execution of the vaccine.”

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
December 24, 2020 1:45 pm

I hate these pseudo-intellectual rat holes.

It’s Clintonian in its arrogance.

flash
flash
December 24, 2020 2:30 pm

By design.

“The assault on objective truth in the 21st century is race based and gender based. The races and genders have their own truths.”

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two seminal decisions ratifying social engineering as the deep grammar of American life. Berman v. Parker established urban renewal as a form of ethnic cleansing, and Brown v. School Board, turned public schools into vehicles of social engineering based on race. Following Brown v. School Board, race, not religion, became the source of ethnic identity in America. The oligarchs chose race because they believed in the Roman motto “divide et impera.

Then everything includes itself in power
Power into will, will into appetite,
And appetite, a universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power
Must make perforce a universal prey,
And last eat himself up.

We witnessed the fulfillment of that line from Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida over the summer of 2020. Deprived of the morality based conservatism that Russell Kirk proposed as the only way to unite the people of this country, the United States descended into moral anarchy, identity politics and race war, as articulated by the Jewish revolutionary spirit, and Michigan led the way. Governor Gretchen Whitmer turned the COVID pandemic into a lockdown which was nothing less than an undeclared war on the lower end of the state’s entrepreneurial class, epitomized by Karl Manke, the barber from Owosso, who defied Whitmer’s lockdown regulations and was later vindicated by the Michigan Supreme Court.[12].

During the time leading up to the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, George Soros gave Black Lives Matter $33 million dollars. During the summer of 2020, Jews like George Soros and Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation league tried to ignite a race war in the United States as part of their campaign to deny Donald Trump re-election.

The ADL was not the only Jewish organization supporting Black Lives Matter. According to a report in the Jewish Telegraph Agency, “More than 400 Jewish organizations and synagogues in the United States have signed on to a letter that asserts ‘unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.’”[16] Those groups represented a broad spectrum “of religious, political, gender, and racial identities. The list of signatories – from small congregations to major Jewish organizations – represents millions of Jewish people in the United States . . . .”

What name do we give to this involvement? In America it was called the Black-Jewish alliance. For the 70 years following the lynching of Leo Frank, Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamantion League or ADL and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, tried to foment race war in the United States. The culmination of this campaign came in the 1960s with the creation of the Civil Rights Movement.”

https://www.unz.com/ejones/the-rise-and-fall-of-conservatism-in-michigan/

Cow Doctor
Cow Doctor
December 24, 2020 2:44 pm

Veritas vos liberabit

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
December 24, 2020 11:16 pm

Give me a white Christian nation.

Btw, the truth does not exist.