Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
why destructive identities take hold
Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
Meaning is not hidden inside things. It emerges through the relationships, delays, absences, and consequences that allow anything to matter at all.
The strangest thing about meaning is that it does not arise from certainty but from its absence. Language works because something always escapes complete description. What remains unsaid is not a failure of communication. It is the condition that makes communication possible.
What is truth. The moment we ask the question, we are already inside language, and everything that follows unfolds from that fact. Truth is not something we approach from outside, as a detached observer might inspect an object. It arises within sequences of tokens, within the games we play with them, within the structures we […]