Every Word a Mystery; Or, the Utter Insufficiency of Secondary Thinking Today
I have argued for the necessity of direct knowledge and primary thinking in this time and place, primarily due to the ongoing erosion and perhaps inevitable collapse of secondary-level thinking as a sincere and trustworthy source of knowledge and thought.
The continuous deterioration of secondary thinking is most evident in the apparent increase in the need to question what symbolic communication in the form of language, writing, and images actually refers to or means.
The worst offenders in this realm are the contemporary sophists, word-charmers, hucksters, and other assorted slippery sorts looking to monetize their own secondary thinking via various platforms and the media. That most of these communication shysters come off as smarmy door-to-door salesmen adds little comfort.
The short video below provides an example of what I mean. You know secondary thinking is in big trouble when simple words like “do” and “you” embedded within a fairly straightforward question are singled out for their “mystery.”
All this is set against the backdrop of System-promoted AI, which seeks to further blur, confuse, and obliterate whatever inherent meaning symbolic communication attempts to deliver.
As far as I can tell, we are faced with two options. The first involves reforming and restoring secondary thinking in the hope of conserving and preserving it.
The other entails moving beyond secondary thinking to pursue primary thinking and direct knowledge, particularly as it pertains to questions like “Do you believe in God?”
The utter failure of reformers, restorers, conservatives, and preservationists to reform, restore, conserve, or preserve anything in the past two centuries (or more) suggests that the present, future, and eternity dwell in the second option.
The continuous deterioration of secondary thinking is most evident in the apparent increase in the need to question what symbolic communication in the form of language, writing, and images actually refers to or means.
The worst offenders in this realm are the contemporary sophists, word-charmers, hucksters, and other assorted slippery sorts looking to monetize their own secondary thinking via various platforms and the media. That most of these communication shysters come off as smarmy door-to-door salesmen adds little comfort.
The short video below provides an example of what I mean. You know secondary thinking is in big trouble when simple words like “do” and “you” embedded within a fairly straightforward question are singled out for their “mystery.”
All this is set against the backdrop of System-promoted AI, which seeks to further blur, confuse, and obliterate whatever inherent meaning symbolic communication attempts to deliver.
As far as I can tell, we are faced with two options. The first involves reforming and restoring secondary thinking in the hope of conserving and preserving it.
The other entails moving beyond secondary thinking to pursue primary thinking and direct knowledge, particularly as it pertains to questions like “Do you believe in God?”
The utter failure of reformers, restorers, conservatives, and preservationists to reform, restore, conserve, or preserve anything in the past two centuries (or more) suggests that the present, future, and eternity dwell in the second option.
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