- Breaking Bad😂

"So he created man in his own image."
[Genesis 1:27]

Ideologies, philosophies, and religions do not explain the world through the inquiry and understanding of Reality. They create the world they try to explain.
This is because Reality (with a capital R) on its own is boring, meaningless, and purposeless. It is merely a scaffold, a skeleton that we cover with the flesh of our ideas and the skin of our imagination. It's the green screen in movies, or a mannequin that we dress with whatever we want.

That's why philosophy, ideology, and religion are not ways of seeking Truth or understanding Reality. They do not seek Truth, they create it.

In summary, they represent a creative force (vis creativa), rather than a contemplative or inquisitive force (vis contemplativa).

And this applies to science to some extent too. Science seeks practicality, rather than Truth (with a capital T). In over-simplified words: it creates "models" that can work efficiently.

+ Just to be clear, I do not mean that "everything is relative" and all philosophies are equally valid and invalid... This is just stupid.

As soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself, it always creates the world in its own image. Thus, philosophy is the tyrannical drive itself, the most spiritual will to power, the will to "creation of the world"


- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil

I guess Americans must be in real trouble since even Bill Maher (who's generally a leftist, liberal, democrat) believes that this is too much.

Even his show's new slogan "let's get America Re-hinged" can be easily used as a right-wing slogan in the context of bringing America "back" to sanity and to good ol' times.
This tells you how extreme the situation is there.

In America today, a human is no longer born male or female, and obesity is not something that affects health, you can be healthy at any size, really, we voted on it.
A formerly serious magazine last year published with a straight face an article called "Seperating sports by sex doesn't make sense."
I have spent 3 decades on TV mocking Republicans who said climate change was just a theory, and now I got to deal with people who say: you know what else is just a theory? Biology!

- Bill Maher

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Macbeth:
Can't you not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon her heart?

Doctor:
Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.