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0255 The full title of the book before me is Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam<\/em> (Center Street Press: Nashville and New York).  The book consists of an introduction, followed by fifteen chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0256 Why am I numbering the start of this examination with the number that follows the end of Professor Steve Fuller’s 2020 book, A Player’s Guide to The Post-Truth Condition?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I have a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Fuller on target?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0257 One way to address this question is an examination of an author who is a player in the current theo-political drama<\/em>of the Fourth Battle of the Enlightenment Gods<\/em> (1989-present).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivek Ramaswamy offers a book that suits the purpose.  Take a look at the table of contents.  The title of the introduction<\/em>is “The Woke-Industrial Complex”.  The title of the final chapter<\/em> is “Who are We?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0258 Are “we” the ones who have substituted the broadcasts of the empirio-normative judgment<\/em> for our own thoughts, so what we say<\/em> can be objectified as phenomena for the psychometric sciences?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or are “we” the ones who read the previous sentence and ask, “What the hell are you talking about?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The choice is clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0259 We are in the fourth world war.  I call it The Fourth Battle of the Enlightenment Gods: Empirio-Normative Domination in the Post-Truth Condition<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a list of all four wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0260 Of course, those who are certified in modern history<\/em> will classify this list as “revisionist”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, reflect on the titles of the introduction and chapter fifteen of Ramaswamy’s book<\/em> and ask, “Just who is acting as a revisionist?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woke, Inc.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, the confounded subject of domination<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0261 In the introduction, Ramaswamy claims that two characteristics<\/em> define America as a nation<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is the American Dream,<\/em> where “success” is regarded in terms of “getting ahead”.  To many, “getting ahead” is associated with capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second is the Latin slogan, e pluribus unum<\/em>, out of many, one.  Pluralism celebrates a variety of views<\/em> and the challenges of convincing others of the relevance of one’s own view<\/em>.  We all have this in common.  Everyone has an opinion.  Ramaswamy associates this to democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0262 Here are the associations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0263 But, how do these slogans associate to the interscope for the post-truth condition?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I must go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following interscope is typical for the many interscopes that appear in the examination of Fuller’s guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0264 For the content-level, the normal context of my intellect3a<\/sub><\/em> brings the dyadic actuality of what I think [cannot be objectified as] what I am willing to say2a<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the possibilities inherent in ‘my will’1a<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the nature of this dyadic actuality2a<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has to do with science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I think<\/em> is like a noumenon<\/em>, a thing itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I say<\/em> is like its phenomena,<\/em> the observable and measurable facets of a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kant’s slogan, a noumenon<\/em> [cannot be objectified as] its phenomena<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, what I think<\/em> [cannot be objectified as] what I say<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0265 Kant’s slogan<\/em> figures in what is<\/em> in the Positivist’s judgment<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a diagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0266 Clearly, the content-level actuality2a<\/sub><\/em> corresponds to what is<\/em> of the Positivist’s judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If logical positivists had their way, they would dismiss the noumenon as a stumbling block for scientific inquiry into phenomena.  This is precisely why Kant insists on the realness of the noumenon, in addition to its phenomena.   Scientific models<\/em> are not the same as the thing itself,<\/em> even though triumphalist scientists would have models replace their noumena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, for most sciences, the noumenon is merely a book-keeping entry<\/em> corresponding to what is responsible for observable and measurable phenomena<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I repeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I think<\/em> is a book-keeping entry<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I say<\/em> corresponds to what the psychometric sciences observe and measure<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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