The latest trend being pushed by philosophers and scientists alike is that nothing is objectively real, and everything is relative or subjective. Let’s step through this and put this sophistry to bed. If you believe everything is subjective and there is no such thing as objective truth than you can justify any behavior as it is only subjective to “societal norms”. In this way, you can justify all the evils as nothing more than society not normalizing them and determine what is right and wrong and can postulate that a different society with different norms would find these things perfectly okay and it's only your interpretation that makes these things wrong. You will hear this kind of stuff coming from many different sources. It is an attempt to enshrine relativism. Relativism is when the mind determines what reality is not something external. With this kind of belief in place, bad things are only bad because we interpret them this way (or that the physical is the result of the mental, so its only wrong because we think it is wrong). It is an attempt to make the supreme rule the interpretation not what is. This is sophistry at its finest. If you can convince people the only thing that is real is what they believe is real you can fully control them by manipulating what they believe is real.
What they are doing is blurring the line between objective reality (what is) and subjective reality (how we interpret what is) and in fact, they are attempting to completely remove the concept of objective reality. If we want to be intelligent thinking people with free will (the ability to think for ourselves and act upon those thoughts) we have to try our best to understand objective truths in order to accumulate knowledge about objective reality. The sophists that are trying to stop you from even looking for objective truths to understand objective reality are the same ones manipulating our perceptions of objective reality and assuring we only get stuck with some false interpretation of reality that ensures our free will is suppressed and controlled by those that control what we believe reality to be (stuck in subjective reality that they manipulate). This is done by controlling and limiting the information we have access to. The vast majority of the objective truth is hidden from the public eye and is classified or hidden underneath many layers of esoteric doctrine which is almost impossible to get the root understanding. The war is (and always has been) on the mind of the masses by those with the power to control information. The old saying knowledge is power is very true and we are excluded from knowing anything worth knowing. The little bit they do let out is buried in dry boring books on dusty shelves long forgotten or behind locked doors with many guards in front of them.
Let’s use Descartes's famous brain in a vat analogy and expand it to a much more likely meaning. If you are not familiar with it, it summarizes, “how do we know we are not brains in vats with some demon feeding us all that we observe?” his answer was “I think, therefore I am.” Now do the elite philosophers really believe its possible to be brains in vats and we must debunk this theory? I would offer that they don’t that it is really an analogy for what we clearly see going on today. If you control all the information that people receive (just like the demon feeds the brain what it wants them to observe) than the person is nothing but a brain locked in a vat and under the control of those that control what the information/disinformation. If you have studied the esoteric philosophies and the mystery schools (Freemasons/Rosicrucians/etc.) you will eventually conclude that at the highest levels it’s all about manipulation of the mind (and defending your mind from manipulation) and this analogy by Descartes is a perfect representation for it. His answer is also perfect. I think, therefore I am not a brain in a vat. I think therefore I have free will. I think therefore I am not under somebody’s control. I think, therefore I am. Which he does not say but can be directly assumed from the statement that the inverse is also true. I don’t think therefore I am not. I don’t think there for somebody else controls me. I don’t think therefore I am nothing more than a brain in a vat.
We must first learn how to think. It is more than logic. Intuition is a crucial part of thinking and being able to connect with objective reality. Without good intuition, those that wish to do so can control your perceptions and convince you that you are a brain in a vat (or just part of a computer simulation to update the metaphor to the modern day) or whatever other subjective reality they wish to create for you. After you learn to combine logic and intuition you must search for information in the places that are not publicized as these are that the real information is hidden (it is also hidden among mystical or “evil” labels to dissuade the curious from delving into these areas. It will never be on the nightly news or any other easily accessible media. You must trust your instincts and then use your logic to see if where they have taken you is consistent with your observations (and you must delve much deeper than the mere surface or obvious observations as these are always limited to deny access to true knowledge), if it is you are on the right track to objective reality. You must remember there are many more sides to everything then the 2 or 3 sides being presented and you have to think and reason outside the box (or vat in this case) they have put you in only then will you be free.
Thanks for reading :)
Oz
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