I guess this is a compliment, right?
I am here because I am an incel and I think that the black pill is fundamentally correct and, above all, that it is the only basis on which something that can replace the currently decaying Western culture can be built.
I understand. I do not believe in saving the west, as I don't believe there can be an earthly utopia. People have tried before, you know.
Oliver Cromwell famously tried to outlaw alcohol and degenerate partying in Britain. It didn't go well. He was a misguided idealist.
Additionally he was gullible enough to think he could juggle and maintain the favors of multiple interests groups, like the royalists, the military and the populace. He later died deeply depressed and ill of health from the stress he put on himself.
Now, you may say, well he just did not do it right but I disagree. There will be no earthly utopia, ever.
The closest thing we had was the longest lasting and most successful empire in history, namely the Byzantine Empire. It was an christian theocracy and lasted for 1000 years despite its capital coming under siege over 20 times in that period.
Another thing about your post irks me. You say, the blackpill is correct and something upon which a culture can be built.
This is a dangerous fallacy. You should study the is/ought fallacy, but you may be familiar with it already.
My point of contention is this: The blackpill is simply an amalgamation of neutral information. It is something that simply 'is.'
But you are carelessly jumping from an 'is' to an 'ought.'
As it stands, the genocidal maniacs running our world are utilizing arguments similar to the blackpill to justify their actions. So have many other groups in history used blackpill talking points to advance their agendas. However, this does not disprove the blackpill. How we ought to act is wholly distinct from the information we have available.
This is also called "the myth of the given," or "the myth of obviousness."
For instance, let's assume we were women of reasonable intelligence (lol), and we were advocates for the female cause.
From our persepective, the blackpill is extremely positive. Women are in power, men are easily manipulated, women demonstrate great aptitude at getting ahead in life. Women are pretty awesome from this perspective and should keeping doing what they are doing (I am oversimplifying on purpose).
How would you counter such a position? You can't. They are using the same "blackpill facts" but because they are applying a different worldview, they come to a completely different "ought" conclusion.
We are not debating facts you see. There is no such thing as a fact when it comes to ought claims. Ought claims are presuppositions distinct of the adherents worldview.
We are debating the coherency of worldviews. It's a matter of which worldview can account for the maximum number of problems we are confronted with when navigating life.
These problems range from base-level philosophical problems to more empirical issues.
Some of these problems are:
- the problem of induction
- the problem of the external world
- the problem of identity over time
- the problem of metaphysics/universals
to name a few.
Most worldviews, the vast majority, will not be able to account for any of these and be self refuting, because if taken to their ultimate conclusion, they mostly lead to the negation of the possibility of knowledge itself.
Let's take Nietzsche for instance and say, there is no truth. This is self refuting already. Is the statement "there is no truth" true? Necessarily. So it's over in one step. Ok, lets take another one that is popular, "might is right" or "will to power."
1. "There is no truth, only will to power" - is that statement a truth claim? If yes ->it's false and self refuting
2. "There is no morality, only power, everyone invents their own morality" -> is that an absolute moral claim? Of course. It necessarily has to be universally true and applicable for everyone eternally. So it does the exact opposite of what it claims. It necessisates the claim-maker as the omnipotent dictator of morality while espousing to do the opposite.
How do you know that there is only will to power if there is no truth?
If you just assume it, then your making another truth claim, namely “I can assume it is true.”
And how do you know that you can assume things? That’s just another unfounded claim you make.
How do you know that you can know things?
You just assume that based on nothing.
So, if you can not know anything, what are you going to apply your will to power to? If you can’t know if something is good or bad, because you can’t know that you know anything, then what will you apply your will to power to? You can't know that you know what you want is a good course of action. And every course of action you take presumes that you think it is a good course of action because
nobody can do something they don't want to do.
(please don't fall for the trap of thinking I use the word "good" in the reductive good vs evil sense. Word-concept fallacy. I'm talking in the abstract sense of "good")
There are no valid arguments to me made at this point because you cant make any claims anymore.
Everything is just opinions at this point, they will agree on that. But you have to push further. So, is the claim that everything is just opinions a truth claim? Is that necessarily true? Yes. So how do you know its true? You can’t.
So, If they were honest they would have to say:
“I don’t know if I am right or wrong and I can not even assume to know whats right and wrong, but I will enforce whatever I want by power.”
This is of course self contradictory. If you can’t know anything let alone which course of actions is good or bad, then you can not apply your will to anything. Because that assumes you know which course of action is good. So you don’t know anything, you don’t even know what you want, because you don’t know that its good or bad. So what are you going to enforce with power? If you can’t know anything, how can you enforce anything?
Also, "I can't know anything" is also just another unfounded claim that requires you to have the ability to know in the first place.
Earthly Illustration: Maybe eating healthy is a complete cope and everything is just mindset. Maybe there are vegan monks in china that secretly live to 1000. You can not know that. And you cant know your diet is right either. You cant know anything. So which path will you choose if there is not even a path.
People will respond, "oh, but I can assume I know what's right."
You can not though, because "i can assume" is ad hoc. It's just another claim they conjure up to save their failing position.
There is nothing to enforce, there is just nothing. And even that is an assumption based on faith – “there is nothing.”
So you literally cant know anything, not even that you don’t know anything.
Just kill yourself theory.
“But I can assume.”
No you cant, the claim "I can assume" is an assumption.
You cant know anything at all.
Sometimes they say “thats just wordgames” at this point.
Or, “we have to draw a line.” (of where to stop taking the argument to its conclusion)
But how do you know where to draw the line? This is a classic neck-breaker of utilitarian arguments.
Where you draw the line is arbitrary and so is the entire position.
You cant assume anything, not even that assuming itself is valid.
The claim "I can assume" is a claim based on faith.
You cant even assume, because even "I can assume" is an assumption.
You cant know anything at all. Not even that assuming is valid.
And if you cant know anything then you cant enforce anything with power.
You cant assume that I can assume anything. Or not assume anything. In your worldview you cant know anything at all. You cant make any claims whatsoever. To make a claim is to assume that you have access to the truth, which yo usay you don’t have acces to. So you how can you claim that thers different opinions? Thats a truth claim. So you cant know that there are different opinions. You cant assume there are because assuming that you can is a truth claim.
You cant know anything at all not even that you know anything, not even that you know that you don’t know. Truth is subjective is a a truth claim, you cant know that.
Thats a contradiction
I cant know anything – how do you know that you cant know anything then?
At this point my opponent said said yes, "you cant know anything but its just word games"
Yes, because you cant know anything.
Their worldview literally cancels out the possibility of knowledge. You cant know that you know. You cant assume, because that assumes that assuming is true.
“I can assume” – that's a truth claim
But truth doesn’t exist, so you cant know anything in their worldview. It eliminates the possibility of knowledge itself.
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I'm sorry if this was repetitive, I got lazy and just pasted an exchange I had with someone a few weeks ago.
The point is, you need access to the truth to make arguments, obviously. But this does not work if you're a relativist of any kind. You have to presuppose absolute truth exists and that it exists person-independent.
So where is it?
You have to have access to the truth out of necessity.
There are arguments and claims that are true simply by the impossibility of the contrary being true. (Law of identity, law of non-contradiction, law of excluded middle).
Maybe this is all just basic stuff to you but yeah.
I will attach a pdf here that you should read:
The Contingency of Knowledge and Revelatory Theism Copyright © 1999, 2005. By R. M. Manion. Introduction There are two fundamentally different ways to understand the world, intentional and accidental. An intentional world is one that comes about on purpose and for a purpose. It is a world that...
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