Answer to Postmodernism

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Galatians 4:16

Postmodernism denies the existence of truth; therefore, it cannot be true!

The fact that I comment on such things does not make me the enemy of this civilization. Quite on the contrary, free speech had its ground in the common search for truth. Truth, at least while this civilization believed in such a concept, it was seen as useful, despite its "fangs", despite it behaving nastily. He who puts the light under the bushel, he is the enemy of this civilization, not he who unmasks its mistakes.

What do you think is the impact of hackers on Microsoft's Windows(R, tm)? When a hacker makes public an exploit, Microsoft trembles and its programmers curse their own days. But, in the end, the result of such publishing is a far better product (via Windows Update). So, Microsoft has short term damage from it, and a middle term gain from it.

We have a problem and we want to solve it. In order to approach it, we have at hand two explanations, one which has 9% truth (expl1) and one which has 5% truth (expl2).

The explanations will lead to different solutions; we write: expli->soli, where i=1 or 2.

We will write then sol1>sol2, meaning that sol1 if more efficient than sol2

(This is, superior to it). We understand long-term efficiency, for a Pyrrhic victory is not quite a solution.

The premise of our judgments is Acts 5:34-39, which takes over an Aristotle's argument (ontic-ontologic efficiency of truth).

We admit that the solutions are chi-square distributions (time on x-axis and efficiency on y-axis).

The length of such distributions (i. e., g95) will be the greater as the quantity of truth is greater.

Results that from seeking immediate efficiency it follows long-term failure.

We write: 0% truth = null efficiency. Doing nothing has null efficiency. This means immediate vanishing (passing in potential) -- matter itself has a percentage truth in it, for breathing, particles moving around the nucleus, etc., they follow some laws which they understand as true. The purpose of nihilism is universal nihilation. Therefore, nihilism tends toward 0% truth. It is more truth in a glass of water than in a treatise of mathematics.

We speak of added truths and added lies. In Marx, the added truth was the explicit take over of some theses of Christ (see Kautsky's interpretation). Marx repeated Christ's story, but upside down.

From added truth it followed the political advantage of the communist movement

(also, Marx largely appealed to envy), and from the added lie, it followed the bankruptcy of East-European countries. (By "added" I mean relative originality.) Marx's added truth was the critique of inhuman conditions; his added lie was turning one's back to God, (set forth as social ideology).

In Hitler, added truth was the propagation of Nietzsche's critique of small bourgeois mentality and the added lie was the presentation of Jews as scapegoats. Hitler winning the elections was due to added truth (comparative advantage in respect to concurrent parties -- also, the lie he added stimulated voters' prejudices, which felt their egos flattered and they voted for him -- in Goebbels' propaganda technology was a lot of added truth, but it was kept for the elite and not offered to the masses).

We have for 0% truth null efficiency and for 100% truth we have infinite efficiency. t(0)=0 and t(1)=infinite. The simplest function of such a form is:

t(x)=t0*x/(1-x), wherein t0 is a temporal constant which we compute below.

We notice: t(50%)=t0. Interpretation: to know 1/2 of what God knows means to be half-god. The Devil knows all what can be known (Ezekiel 28:3), that is why he can oppose himself to God with such success.

The heroes of antique Greece we guess they were the offspring of God's Sons

(Genesis 6:2) with the daughters of men, the Sons of God beings half-gods

(1 Corinthians 8:5).

The heroic epoch is the mythical epoch, also known as the golden age of humankind. If we compute the time since man's creation (sixth day) and we take for it 1.8 millions years (according to M. Harris in _Culture, People, Nature. An Introduction to General Anthropology_, 7th ed., Longman, 1997, p. 35, so approximately 2 million years) from the apparition of archaic Homo sapiens till the end of the golden age, then we have:

t0=2*10^6 years.

If we compute the lifetime of Christianity of about two thousand years (since propagation till becoming a sixth hand power in the West, but maybe it did not reach insignificance) then we have:

t(x)=2000 years.

2*10^6*x/(x-1)=2*10^3

x=(approx) 10^-3=0.1% truth.

It follows that the exoteric truth of the Bible reveals 0.1% of what God knows

(as knowledge quality).

Or, the tradition says that the Bible contains an enormous quantity of knowledge. This tradition was the most efficient political construct of the actual West, so it follows that therein something is true, that is: Bible tells the truth.

(Circularity is here hermeneutical.)

It follows the conclusion: the Bible is encrypted. Therefore, for anyone who wishes knowledge, esoterism is a must. (Hebrews 11:1 affirms this: Christianity is an occult teaching -- "hidden things" are occult!)

Tudor Georgescu

http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org

P. S.: We did not define here what is truth, but we offered and intuitive model of it. It follows, to compute t(x) function of x, it is just pure subjectivity. It follows, we will compute x function of t(x), i. e. x=t^-1(t(x)), see Dan A. Lazarescu's affirmation: "history is a vast retrospective social laboratory".

Micro-macro transition:

Collective efficiency is: t(x);

Individual efficiency is function of: - social truth (as available in the collective mental); - the correctitude of its communication (participation in the collective mental); - its degree of getting applied (arduousness).

Arduousness may have negative values, function of the individual being against or for society's ideals. Society's ideals they can be better or worse. Truth does not guarantee doing the good, but only efficiency of one's doing.

It is also important that the social truth be renewed, so it is need a flow of added truth, otherwise added thinking errors will damage society.

When societies feel their chi-square histogram is about to diminish, terrible things happen (e. g. Inquisition, Islamic state and the actual world tragi-comedy meant to support the Washington consensus.)

I realize this is more of a knowledge quality theory, as different from Shannon's theory of quantity of information.