{"id":1923,"date":"2022-08-06T12:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/truth-is-not-a-leftist-value\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T12:04:03","slug":"truth-is-not-a-leftist-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/08\/06\/truth-is-not-a-leftist-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth is not a Leftist Value"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted today on my Facebook<\/em> page. I could not resist making some additions for the present venue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My title is a Dennis Prager riff. But it needs a bit of nuancing, a job for a philosopher, not a talk show host.  Truth is a value for leftists in an instrumental sense: they will tell the truth if it serves their agenda. If it doesn't, they feel justified in lying. So perhaps we should say that for a leftist, truth is not an absolute value. They don't respect it as an objectively binding norm.<\/span><\/div>\n
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For a leftist, especially the 'woke' species thereof, truth is simply a matter of perspective: it is the perspective of a particular power-hungry individual or tribe. The perspective is true to the extent that it enhances the power of the power-unit whose perspective it is.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The underlying metaphysics and epistemology is Nietzschean. Now this here's Facebook, and not the place to get all academic. But perhaps now you understand why a leftard like the Ladder Man<\/a> is enamored of Nietzsche.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Die Welt is der Wille zur Macht und nichts anders!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Das Kriterium der Wahrheit is die Steigerung des Machtgef\u00fchls! <\/span><\/em><\/em><\/div>\n
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"The world is the Will to Power and nothing besides!"<\/span><\/div>\n
"The criterion of truth is the increase in the feeling of power."<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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It is also worth pointing out that coherence is not a leftist value either. Lefties say all sorts of things that make no sense in pursuit of their agenda. For example, "Walls are immoral." (Pelosi); "Diversity is our strength." (Pelosi and numerous other leftards.) Here too the absolute-instrumental distinction kicks in.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The problem with "Walls are immoral" is not that it is false, but that it makes no sense, and therefore does not satisfy a necessary condition of a proposition's having a truth-value. A wall cannot be either moral or immoral; only a person who uses a wall for one purpose or another.<\/span><\/div>\n
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But try explaining that to a destructive knucklehead like Madame Speaker! You won't get through to her because power is the cynosure of her political machinations. She was always a dingbat, but now she is a dingbat wrapped in senility. And a clear and present danger to the Republic, as witness her ill-advised Taiwan junket<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A decrepit donkey should not poke a dragon with a stick.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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