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In order to demonstrate this, we must work backwards from the truth. Ask yourself this, what even is the truth? Is it math? Is it whatever makes bridges not collapse? Is it stuff that makes you feel good? All wrong, wrong, wrong. The answer is, we don't know, no on knows or has ever been in contact with, the truth. Truth is a completely man made fairy tale, a hoax. Now if no one has access to the truth then what are people positing whenever they declare something, the answer is: Their inherent bias/wants/needs/desires/yearnings.
So it could be said that anything, yes ANYTHING spoken via language isn't true, instead language is a means of mimetic/idea/reality manipulation serving whoever is doing the speaking. Evolution selects for fitness, not truth. Anyone who claims to be speaking 'the truth', or 'objectivity' or proclaiming what is real or isn't is in fact, a liar, whether they know it or not. When another person is speaking to you, a metaphysical transaction is being made, they want something out of this interaction and they're going to use language (lies) in order to get whatever it is they want whether that be your admiration, wealth, status etc etc - There's no such thing as talking in good faith, all words are inherently disingenuous.
"because someone said language was invented to lie. Well, perhaps that is too cynical, but certainly language obfuscates reality. It cannot help but do this"
- Terence McKenna
"Language is a virus from outer space"
- William S. Burroughs
So it could be said that anything, yes ANYTHING spoken via language isn't true, instead language is a means of mimetic/idea/reality manipulation serving whoever is doing the speaking. Evolution selects for fitness, not truth. Anyone who claims to be speaking 'the truth', or 'objectivity' or proclaiming what is real or isn't is in fact, a liar, whether they know it or not. When another person is speaking to you, a metaphysical transaction is being made, they want something out of this interaction and they're going to use language (lies) in order to get whatever it is they want whether that be your admiration, wealth, status etc etc - There's no such thing as talking in good faith, all words are inherently disingenuous.
"because someone said language was invented to lie. Well, perhaps that is too cynical, but certainly language obfuscates reality. It cannot help but do this"
- Terence McKenna
"Language is a virus from outer space"
- William S. Burroughs
If you've actually comprehended this thread you'd realise the irony in it