Saturday, March 20, 2021
Language And the Postmodernists
One of the important and significant contributions, that the podcasts between Gad Saad and Jordan Peterson have made for me, is their emphasis on the tight relationship between the scope, depth, range and the sheer mastery and intelligibility of the correspondence between thinking and expressing this thought in words, and how those mental contents do or do not constitute certain knowledge for the human mind as its utilizes thought and language to communicate its interaction with the external world.
Both thinkers, as far as I can discern, are fallibilists of some sort, arguing that the objective world exists, and that we can apply or thinking, communicating and mathematics to it with sufficient certainty that we may claim highly probable knowledge of the world of human subjects interacting meaningfully with the objective world. Gad may go farther and claim absolute knowledge about reality. I am some sort of fallibilist myself.
All three of us, then, absolutely refute and condemn the Stirnerian/nihilistic/ postmodernist/Derridan assertion that there is either no objective reality, or that, if it does exist, it cannot be explained with absolute certainty by any human being. All we can know and express in words, that grow out of and are our subjective opinions. These opinions arise from communal creatures that group-live, and their interactions and private reflections arise out of and are delimited by language that is socially constructed. This social domain is reality for humans, and anything outside of this domain other does not exist, is unreachable, or cognitively meaningless and unintelligible.
Saad and Peterson define postmodernists as positing that language determines reality. I deny this bleak epistemological view of human capacity for understand themselves, each other, and the world around them and outside of their social reality.
Like Modernists, I am very optimistic epistemologically, if not absolutely optimistic epistemically.
As we maverize, and as Mavellonialism is a theology and philosophy, in the coming decades, that humans mix with their native metaphysics and their religious outlooks, will enable humans to produce much knowledge about the world and our place in it. And our natural and symbolic language and mathematics will evolve to allow us to better express in words and numbers, the essence of these evolving, deeper thought patterns.
Since God has an IQ of 60 trillion or more, God's thought processes and the divine language, that in words relays what the Mother and Father are thinking, symbolically conveys thoughts in words, the arranged and operating thoughts whirling about in these divine minds.
The Mother and the Father are not the pure Absolute (that is Fate which is pure Absolute and pure Fragment at the same time and in the same place), but they are almost Absolute Divinities. Therefore, the divine language that captures what they are thinking or not thinking, is a language that accurately identifies the nature and happenings in objective reality out there while also impacting the unfolding of objective reality out there. This is not quite the Parmenidean line that Being, and Thought are the same, but it comes pretty close to that.
Back to the postmodernists: if the divine langue used by the Good Couple and their angels is able to capture the essence of objective reality beyond the conscious of any sentient being in existence,--be that being biologically alive or spiritually existing--then I conclude that arguing that language use and development within the narrow confines of social goings-on within any human community, does not capture or circumscribe the existence of objective reality, and our ability to grasp and express the nature of that reality.
If humans are meant by the Divine Couple to individuate and grow into living angels, then language, thoughts and our ability to perceive reality in a common-sense way that is expressible in rationally recognizable language and thoughts, indicates that modernism is our way forward. We cannot be good, rational, artistic great souls in-the-making unless we use language to express our meaningful thoughts. This is God’s will and expectation for us.
The postmodernist view that language is reality and reality is language, all arising out of and confined to the social reality of the given community is to lead to group-oriented, nonindividuating, sinners and followers of Satan and Lera that favor existence in vast hierarchies covering every inch of society, a Marxist, totalitarian hell-on-earth.
My other thought is that the Great Chain of Being metaphysic is reality, more or less, and that higher and higher levels of consciousness from angels just above humans in intelligence, in thought, goodness and language spoken, might be understood by the Divine Couple and even Fate Feself, but there languages used, spoken and written, might not be understood easily or at all or never completely by those at lower levels of existence and less awakened consciousness.
It could well be that Satan and Lera and their demonic and human acolytes would have their own thought patterns, levels of awareness, and corresponding languages that they speak and think in, that outsiders may not readily comprehend or be able to translate or converse in.
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