{"id":7908,"date":"2024-07-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2024-06-24T19:38:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:38:02","slug":"looking-at-steve-fullers-book-2020-a-players-guide-to-the-post-truth-condition-part-19-of-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7908","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Steve Fuller&#8217;s Book (2020) &#8220;A Player&#8217;s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition&#8221; (Part 19 of 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0178 Chapter twelve shifts Fuller back to&nbsp;<em>a guide&nbsp;<\/em>for the post-truth condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0179 In 2020, he writes that there are&nbsp;<em>four challenges<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>the psychometric sciences<\/em>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<em>the budding COVID-19 saga<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, winning the fight against&nbsp;<em>the virus<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, winning the fight over&nbsp;<em>what &#8216;winning the fight&#8217; means<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third, winning the fight over&nbsp;<em>the lessons to learn from &#8216;what winning the fight means&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth, winning the fight over&nbsp;<em>&#8216;what the lessons from winning the fight&#8217; broadly mean<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0180 Here is a guess as to the appropriate empirio-normative judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide45-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note how&nbsp;<em>each challenge<\/em>&nbsp;ends when&nbsp;<em>what is<\/em>&nbsp;(what people say) corresponds to&nbsp;<em>what ought to be<\/em>&nbsp;(<em>a normative narrative<\/em>).&nbsp;&nbsp;As each challenge ends, the next begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0181 In 2024, I ask, &#8220;Where do the four challenges stand?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First is winning the fight about&nbsp;<em>the origins of the virus<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This fight is not over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Second is winning the fight over&nbsp;<em>how to really treat this particular viral disease<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This fight is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Third is winning the fight over&nbsp;<em>how the initial determination of what to do to cure the disease turned out to be a complete disaster, as well as a fraud, perpetrated as an ineffective synthetic mRNA technology and approved by experts as an experimental &#8220;vaccine&#8221;<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The public is still in shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth is winning the fight over&nbsp;<em>the broad lessons of a catastrophic success<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;coming from the one of scientism<sub>3c<\/sub>, who now seems to be prepared to encourage more trials<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0182 It is enough to throw one into&nbsp;<em>a fit of metalepsis<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0178 Chapter twelve shifts Fuller back to&nbsp;a guide&nbsp;for the post-truth condition. 0179 In 2020, he writes that there are&nbsp;four challenges&nbsp;to&nbsp;the psychometric sciences&nbsp;for&nbsp;the budding COVID-19 saga. 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