Cracks in the Temples of Reason

Endemic Western Marxism and it's metaphysical implications for the Quality of Reason

Dec 04, 2025

Feast of Reason at the Notre-Dame - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently) — step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world”…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[LINK] - Live not by lies

What are the consequences of Western Civilisation increasingly embracing the ideology of Marxism [LINK]?

[LINK] - also refer to - Unhuman [LINK]

[ What happened to Scottish Common Sense Realism in Education? [LINK] - How Europe’s New Political Class Began Rejecting Reality [LINK ] ]

“Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic”…
— Charles Sanders Peirce

Were there cracks beginning to appear in the Temples of Reason [LINK] (the Cult of Reason [LINK]) that emerged post-French Revolution [LINK]**** ^^^^ that ultimately led to a Primacy of Man**** (i.e. Marxism) [LINK]?

****Note: this shift to a Primacy of Man reflected a departure in the Metaphysical orientation [LINK ] and understanding of Being (i.e. the Science of Reality) that had previously culminated in Thomist Philosophy [LINK] that emerged via the Medieval Scholastics and, importantly, one that had reflected the relational nature of Man’s participation in Reality (i.e. the Contingent Being of Man and the Necessary Being of God (i.e. Plato, Aquinas etc.) grounded in the Univocity of Being (i.e. Duns Scotus) [LINK]).

Therefore, given this Marxist re-orientation grounded in a Primacy of Conscious Man the same cracks in the Temples of Reason [LINK] can also be extended to the prevailing “Artificial General Intelligence” narrative that has been widely embraced by the intellectual orthodoxy and various powerful interests in the third decade of the 21st Century [LINK] (refer to the Obfuscation of Intelligence - Part 1 to 17 [LINK] - refer - Is Language (i.e. Semiotic Signs) the same as Intelligence? [LINK] - refer - Language Models cannot reliably distinguish beliefs from knowledge [LINK]).

As America’s greatest thinker - a Modern-Day Aristotle - Charles Sanders Peirce [LINK] once said: “Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic”…

^^^^Note: French Revolution ( the First Left Wing Movement ) [ LINK ] - and - To transform a Country you must first change how you understand it [ LINK ] - and - Symbols Matter [ LINK ] - and - New Mythologies [ LINK] - Deconstruct Art and Tradition [ LINK ] - and - Deconstruct History [ LINK ] - Abolish the Past [ LINK ] - and - Create New Symbols [ LINK ] - and - Deconstruct Myths [ LINK ] - and - Redefine a Country [ LINK ]

“Well, I suppose the answer is is is straightforward, isn’t it.
That there is a little thing called Reality.
And when the rules don’t fit Reality, something has to give.
And what you try to do of course, is rely on Comms to bridge the gap…
… this takes us again very, very, neatly back to the bigger intellectual point, uh, that Oborne made, um, about lying and why it became so prominent.
He relates it very much to the whole development of what’s called post-modernism to the, to the, idea that there is no such thing as simply Reality or Truth, that it’s all a construct of Power…
… I think this again plays very, very, much into the mindset of the Left.
The Left has always believed that you can change Reality”…
— David Starkey