Truth Is

Neoborn Caveman sits alone with one sustained monologue on truth itself, names the mass manipulation mechanism he calls the BITE and why truth refuses it entirely, turns the mirror on the cooperation of ordinary people with the lie, traces the lost handholds of inner ordering from the Greeks through the spiritual webshop of modern consumer faith, walks through the Enlightenment's quiet substitution of measurement for cultivation and every ideological costume change since as the same error under a different name, holds Keynes's 1930 prediction of a temporary moral inversion against the plain arithmetic that we are now at the hundred-year mark, and closes where the mirror has always closed: Truth is. What are you doing?Key TakeawaysThe BITE is the manipulator's technique; truth refuses it, and that refusal is exactly why people keep their distance.We are cooperating with the lie, actively, using the same creative energy that could have built real lives.Once the old systems of inner ordering were discredited, the need did not disappear; a consumer webshop of spiritual ingredients took their place.Temperance, as the ancients understood it, was arrangement of the instincts, not their denial.Whoever cannot order himself has little chance of recognizing or helping to realize order anywhere else.The Enlightenment traded cultivation for measurement and declared the interior life of the species irrelevant; every ideology since has repeated the same error under a new name.Keynes said the moral inversion would last a hundred years. The mark has been reached. The inversion never reversed.A civilization organized around infinite external accumulation by people who abandoned interior ordering is at war with the physical conditions of its own existence.Human dignity does not depend on output, consumption, or compliance.Making death invisible removed one of the most powerful tools of concentration and ordering the species ever had.Sound Bites"It bites. It finds the emotion already present, the anxiety or the resentment or the loneliness already sitting in the chest.""Look, the world's problem is cooperation. We are cooperating with the lie.""The confusion of someone who has all the spiritual ingredients and no recipe, no awareness that the recipe was ever the point.""We call it Enlightenment. Was it though?""Whoever cannot realize order in himself has little hope of recognizing order in the world and helping to realize it.""This is ancient, it's a tradition, and it used to produce an understanding.""And now we are at the hundred-year mark, yet the inversion never reversed.""For Heaven's sake, three Earths would not be enough.""The people running fastest toward the satisfaction are the ones furthest from it, and they know it, and the knowing is the thing they are running from.""The only labor that has ever produced a human being who could be trusted in a room with power.""Truth is. What are you doing?"Support the show and join the free tea house conversation at patreon.com/theneoborncavemanshow.Keywords: truth, BITE, mass manipulation, temperance, inner ordering, Enlightenment, Keynes, consumer spirituality, spiritual webshop, human dignity, death awareness, I AM, Jacobinism, technofeudalism, cooperation with the lieHumanity centered satirical takes on the world & news + music - with a marble mouthed host.Free speech marinated in comedy.Supporting Purple Rabbits.Viva los Conejos Morados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.