Over the past several years I have found an interest in information. What I mean by information is how information is used by individuals, government, press, and private institutions and how it relates to the “truth”.

I included truth in quotes because truth seems to be mostly subjective lately. Modern society is trying to tell us that truth is relative, that each of us have our own truth. I don’t buy that. I believe that although truth may be somewhat subjective there is a truth that is more true than another. Rarely is the modern “truth” objective and quantifiable or even subject to scientific inquiry and debate. Debate seems to be effectively shut down if there is any assertion that the truth held by the prevailing opinion of the press, Intellectuals, government officials, tech/entertainment industry may be flawed. What is interesting, and I may write about this more in the future, is that we are in a time of “experts” and “intellectual elites” that feel they hold the entirety of knowledge and truth. I find this interested and frightening as I have started to study philosophy, art, psychology and the history of society.

The problem with rationality is that the rational mind tends to idealize its own productions and believe them to be absolutes. An intellectual can quickly fall prey to their own self-adulation. They can tend to ignore or suppress the facts that there are unknown unknowns and fail to recognize the significance of the known unknowns on their hypothesis’. The intellectual elites tend to believe that they have the ultimate knowledge and understanding and therefore they have the answer for your problem. Without coming out and saying it they believe you are just too dumb to figure out your own solution. It is as though intellectuals have primarily become a group that believe science and truth is something that comes through consensus, or in other words, group think. there appears to be an arrogance and narcissism in many which makes them believe they are the arbiter of truth. Completely blind to the infinite variability of life. Instead of viewing life decisions as a series of trade offs or an option better than another they seems to believe in their “solutions” that will “fix” the problem.

The power that the Intellectuals have over the population creates a environment of group think within the population and their own ranks. I met a KGB agent who defected to the US and it was interesting to hear how they manipulate the intellectuals and Elite class by manipulating their rationality and group think to cause chaos and trick them into believing what they wanted them to believe. The agent I met was touted by the press as being a model of Russian US relations all the while he was spying on is and was sowing seeds of dissent within the media and social movements to destabilize our society. He laughed about how simple it was to manipulate an intellectual that couldn’t see past their own perceived self-importance. In Russia Intellectuals were used as agents of influence and useful idiots. If they realized they were being used and decided to fight back they were put in prison or killed.

Group think is very powerful. What I mean by group think is that a group of people hear something and one person agrees by using the logical fallacy called argument from an authority. That “truth” is parroted by others that I call “The 4 holders of truth” not to be conflated with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse [a bit of sarcasm]. It appears to me that the secular populace identifies the 4 holders of truth as the press, Intellectuals, government, and entertainment industries. When they all agree then there is a huge problem. These institutions have become our society’s defacto “experts”. Their “truth” is rarely questioned or tested and attempts to do so are disregarded by using the following terms. Hate, Racism, and conspiracy theory among others. They place blind faith in the credibility and acumen of the person that parroted the so called truth before them thus perpetuating the logical fallacy. In the end you have an unquestioned truth that is pushed as fact without regard to it’s actual validity.

The simple fact is that true knowledge is not and cannot centralized. Even the most educated, intelligent, and wise individual can only hope to have a small infinitesimal fraction of all the knowledge held by all individuals in the world. A quote I like by Thomas Edison hits the nail on the head. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t”.

I believe that although “truth” has some subjectivity there are ways to objectively come to what is more true than not. In order for individuals, government, press, and private institutions to come to their version of the truth they need to blend all kinds of information together in order to make an argument for their “truth”, which rarely resembles real truth. This is often because there is an agenda underlying what is being told. I read somewhere that said an authority will tell you only as much information as to get the desired action or result.

Real truth is not an individual truth, real truth is often hard, honest, and can be hurtful for those who do not want to hear it. If you find someone who always agrees with you, always supports you in everything you do, and never tries to correct you, then I will show you a liar and an enabler.

With this blog I intend to try to identify the prevailing truths as presented by the “4 holders of truth”. I will try to identify where that truth originated and what information was blended together to come to the prevailing truth. I will try to identify if there is an agenda to the truth and how that truth fits into that agenda. I will try to determine if the truth holds up to objective reasoning. I will do my best to present to you how I have come to my conclusions.

I may also write about some things that are just on my mind or things I have learned that I found interesting.

I want to have full disclosure of my personal views. I believe there are primarily two lenses that people view the world through, and I believe there primarily two views on economics and social structure. I have spent many hours reading and studying the two opposing view points. I have read and studied several Friederich Engles and Karl Marx writings as well as biographies about their lives. I have listened to and read works by those who support their views and those who oppose their views. I have also read and studied works by Adam Smith along with works by those critical and supportive of his ideas. For anyone who has actually spent time studying Communism and Capitalism you will find that economics and social structure are woven together.

In case you are wondering Engles and Marx are proponents of Communism, and Adam Smith is a proponent of Capitalism. Through many hours of study I started to formulate a viewpoint that I held to be more true than not. I found an individual that described the two lenses quite well in my opinion. That person is Thomas Sowell. Thomas Sowell described the two lenses in his book, “A Conflict of Visions”. They are the Constrained Vision and the Unconstrained vision. A summary of what these visions entail can be found [Here].

I view the world from a constrained vision. My political view is primarily a mixture of Classical Liberalism, Conservativism, and Libertarianism, but i’m always open to ideas that are logical and objective. The farther you are left and the farther you are right the farther you are from logic. I understand that there are things that are unknown. I believe that in order to be successful in life you observe what has made others successful and apply their actions within your moral frame work. I believe in asking for help but not demanding it. I believe that compassion is a contract between parties that should not be compelled by either side, because then it is not compassion it is theft.

You can expect my writings to possibly wind between topics, or jump topics, or at times may appear like rambling. What I am going to put into this block are thoughts and ideas as they come to me while I write and not necessarily in a structured and organized fashion. I also reserve the right to update my writings, thoughts, and ideas as I learn and study more. It is OK to change your mind when presented with facts you were unaware of.

Now it’s time to pick apart some blended truth, add in my own research and understanding and see if I can come up with something closer to an objective truth.