-Source:  ‘The Confederacy of Locked-Ins by High Switching Costs’ , a voice from deep within Western Culture: -‘Wherein Honest and Popular Don’t Go Hand-In-Hand’

 

Reason and History are the names for two types of BULLSHIT co-contributors to the dysfunction known as Western culture.

It is significant that modern physics endorses the basic understandings built into indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but NOT Western culture.

Western culture cultivates belief in ‘the double error’ of language and grammar which in turn plays a foundational role in both ‘reason’ and ‘history’.  Thus the leadoff statement identifying REASON and HISTORY as the names for two types of BULLSHIT.

These are not new findings, but they seem to slip away from Western culture adherents like water off a duck’s back.  First, just to cite a couple of complainants;

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” George Santayana

“In Reason’ in language!  ……..(Note how Nietzsche points to ‘being’ as the underpinning of ‘reason‘; i.e.  … “Being is thought into and insinuated into everything as ‘cause’; from the concept ‘ego,’ alone, can the concept ‘Being’ proceed.”……….– oh what a deceptive old witch it (reason) has been!  I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.” – Nietzsche, ‘Twilight of the Idols’

If you ponder these two comments a bit, I think you will find that they are pointing to the same’double error’ based flaw in Western thinking.

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