Simulacra of Being

When the Map became the Territory

The Complexity Void

Jul 14, 2025

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“This is your last chance…

After this there is no turning back.

You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill… you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes”…

— Morpheus warning to Neo, The Matrix

“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe?

No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying!”…

— René Magritte

Is the crisis of Modernity [LINK] and Post-Modernity [ LINK] a Theological, Philosophical and Metaphysical crisis? [LINK]

How does one explain the following modern ideas:

The mechanisation of the Human Mind? [LINK];
The mechanisation of the Human Body? [LINK];
The programmability of the Human Body? [LINK];
The notion that intelligence is computational? [LINK];
The notion that intelligence can be artificial [LINK] and lack artifice? [LINK];
The extension of the Industrial Age discipline of engineering into the domains of dynamic complex living systems? Ignoring the Precautionary Principle [LINK]. For example, Genetic Engineering [ LINK], Geo-Engineering [LINK], and Bio-Engineering [LINK];
The notion of a centrally planned Economy? [LINK] - and - the notion of centrally planned intelligence ? [LINK];
The notion of money as a centrally planned social construct [LINK] rather than a price for risk - compensation for uncertainty - Man against the Gods? [LINK];
The notion that academic truth claims were a social construct? [LINK];
The endemic embracement of Marxism across Western Civilisation [LINK]; and
The endemic embracement of Marxism in Education [ LINK] and the retreat from Common Sense? [LINK]

Have we inverted the nature of Reality?

“Coining a new language, either by giving new meanings to familiar terms or by inventing new technical terms, is one of the most effective devices for eclipsing reality”…

— Eric Voegelin

A Simulacra [LINK] of Being [LINK].

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane" …

- Marcus Aurelius

Have we replaced Being in the World as the light of illumination [LINK] with more and more abstraction? [LINK]

“For Descartes the characteristic of error is to replace the illumination of truth with one’s own voluntary preferences”…

—Augusto del Noce

A Primacy of Human Consciousness and a Primacy of Man [ LINK ] - the Anthropomorphism of Reality [ LINK].

Had the Map become the Territory? [LINK]

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Does the confusion in modern-day Science [LINK], such as Quantum Mechanics [LINK], reflect the prevailing Modern and Post-Modern interpretation of Reality?

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Standing on a Balcony and viewing Reality from a distance through a prism of Cartesian Mental World Abstraction (i.e. apart from the World).

What if America’s Aristotle - America’s greatest thinker [LINK] - understood that there were three modes of Being (Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness)?

Noting that without Firstness there simply would be nothing [LINK] [LINK] - Being as the Teological Common Ground of Divine and Natural Revelation [LINK].