In the first case, the lie is more congruent with lived experience. This is heavily influenced by culture, since culture is where people get their morality.
In the second case, what people call true is something that they themselves find congruent with their own experience.
Both sides insist their truth is objective. Both sides are rationalizing their own experience.
We need to center human experience as a part of science and political discourse. Not replace, since pure empiricism is as idealistic as pure positivism. Objectivity in science and objectivity in morality are two sides of the same authoritarianism.
We insist our beliefs are truth and others beliefs are lies because that’s what the ruling class does. They insist that our suffering isn’t real, that others (but not the ruling class themselves) are the cause for it, that our truth must dominate the lies of the other. We disregard the experience of the other because our experiences are disregarded.
Therefore, this whole dynamic is essentially political. Rather than trying to spread truth by mimicking the oppression and domination of hierarchal authoritarianism we need a new politics based on democracy and socialism.
Through political struggle and real democracy, the opportunism of the people who personally benefit from the corruption of others will have their lies exposed for all people to see.
Corruption can be seen everywhere. Similar to how individuality is an expression of freedom, corrupted individuality is an expression of alienation. By fighting for freedom, we fight for the best expressions of human nature to reemerge, we expose and dismantle corrupting influence, and we cast light on everywhere that corruptors can hide their dark intentions. Sooner or later, they will have to face the corruption within themselves or be forced to place themselves in the dustbin of history.
In the first case, the lie is more congruent with lived experience. This is heavily influenced by culture, since culture is where people get their morality.
In the second case, what people call true is something that they themselves find congruent with their own experience.
Both sides insist their truth is objective. Both sides are rationalizing their own experience.
We need to center human experience as a part of science and political discourse. Not replace, since pure empiricism is as idealistic as pure positivism. Objectivity in science and objectivity in morality are two sides of the same authoritarianism.
We insist our beliefs are truth and others beliefs are lies because that’s what the ruling class does. They insist that our suffering isn’t real, that others (but not the ruling class themselves) are the cause for it, that our truth must dominate the lies of the other. We disregard the experience of the other because our experiences are disregarded.
Therefore, this whole dynamic is essentially political. Rather than trying to spread truth by mimicking the oppression and domination of hierarchal authoritarianism we need a new politics based on democracy and socialism.
Through political struggle and real democracy, the opportunism of the people who personally benefit from the corruption of others will have their lies exposed for all people to see.
Corruption can be seen everywhere. Similar to how individuality is an expression of freedom, corrupted individuality is an expression of alienation. By fighting for freedom, we fight for the best expressions of human nature to reemerge, we expose and dismantle corrupting influence, and we cast light on everywhere that corruptors can hide their dark intentions. Sooner or later, they will have to face the corruption within themselves or be forced to place themselves in the dustbin of history.