{"id":7933,"date":"2024-07-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2024-06-24T19:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T19:49:42","slug":"looking-at-steve-fullers-book-2020-a-players-guide-to-the-post-truth-condition-part-24-of-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Steve Fuller&#8217;s Book (2020) &#8220;A Player&#8217;s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition&#8221; (Part 24 of 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0221 Domination?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will<sub>1a<\/sub>&nbsp;underlies knowledge<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;and knowledge underlies opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opportunity<sub>1c<\/sub>&nbsp;for what<sub>2c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Success<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;in projecting something intelligible<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;into my intellect<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;and my will<sub>1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where does that intelligibility<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;comes from the valuations<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;of the psychometric sciences<sub>3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0222 Clearly,&nbsp;<em>the Fourth Battle of the Enlightenment Gods<\/em>&nbsp;is different from&nbsp;<em>prior modern wars<\/em>. This battle arrays&nbsp;<em>those who think the narrative<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;and whose thoughts can be objectified as&nbsp;<em>what marketers and social workers can observe and measure<sub>2a<\/sub>,<\/em>&nbsp;against&nbsp;<em>those who realize that the Positivist godhead&#8217;s definition of success<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;means something other than &#8220;getting ahead&#8221;<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>the big-government (il)liberals<\/em>&nbsp;versus&nbsp;<em>the human rats starting to realize that they are subjects in a colossal hybrid capitalist-socialist scientific experiment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or is it fascist-communist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0223 May I see your vaccine passport?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The person asking the question<\/em>&nbsp;is a &#8220;bigilib&#8221; (big-government (il)liberal) who has bought the narrative, resulting in a coherence within the content-level actuality<sub>2a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Such coherence provides feelings of invulnerability and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide60.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide60.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide60.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide60-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0224&nbsp;<em>The person who must comply with the question<\/em>&nbsp;is a member of the subject population, who knows that&nbsp;<em>showing the passport is an act of compliance.&nbsp;&nbsp;Compliance<\/em>&nbsp;does not comport with&nbsp;<em>the noumenon,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>the thing itself,<\/em>&nbsp;and this provides feelings of vulnerability and alienation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide61.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide61.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide61.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Slide61-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Can the reader identify precisely&nbsp;<em>what phenomena are being observed and measured by the experts that the bigilib reports to?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0225 Fuller does not explicitly state the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, he describes&nbsp;<em>what he thinks<\/em>&nbsp;now that he has come to recognize&nbsp;<em>the post-truth condition<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0221 Domination? 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