Truth – Stepping Stones

This post is not about politics and morality: it’s about truth and honesty on a societal scale.

Politics is not concerned with the betterment of society based on truth and honesty: it’s concerned with the implementation of agendas via staging and rheteroic.

Media is not purposed for the genuine investigation and presentation of crucial facts to ‘inform’ the populace as geuninely as possible: it’s purposed for the production (in a Hollywood sense of the word) of social reality that legitimates socio-political pretense.

In this century, the collective dishonesty inherent to these features has become egregiously flagrant; and their effects have become increasingly destructive. By progressive ideologies and their socio-political movements, Western society, culture, and humanity is deconstructed openly, to the effect of expansive degredation and escalating turmoil.

Hence, while the inherhent topic of this post happens to be immigration, it could just as easily been a host of other topics that have become critically significant in the current era.

For the proper philosophical discussion about any particular thing, the identification of the thing itself is more important than the word used to refer to it: A word is merely a tool used to approximate the meaning of a concept, thus enabling an expedient means to refer to that concept in conversation or writing. In a way, this conventional approximation of conceptual meaning highlights the purpose of Philosophy, which I define here as the unmotivated, uncompromised expression of the innate need to Understand. And, Understanding is perhaps the most important concept to philosophise about—which I define here as the pure and thorough attempt to clarify the essence and significance of a thing. Thus for this essay, a cluster of related ‘things’ I consider worthy of discussion are most closely approximated by the word ‘understanding’, with each of these things representing a particular aspect of that concept, thereby being a different sense of its meaning. Hence, I will use the word ‘understanding’ in multiple senses, supported by my definition of each one; and by which I attempt to describe these particular aspects of Mind and Life.