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Consensus reality (the way most people see the world and think it objectively works) is a social construct used by the bourgeois to control the workers. Turns out there is no objectivity, or if there is, it's beyond human science.
The rich and powerful use our belief in objectivity to control us. The news media, the church, corporate science, the government. They all have no care for objectivity, but they tell us the objective facts are whatever benefit them. That makes us weak, and them strong. Because they will change consensus reality according to their whims, and we will not.
To successfully revolt against capitalism, we must throw off their material chains, and their mental chains. We must embrace subjectivity, and intentionally manipulate our subjectivity for freedom, justice, and kindness. We must take back the means of ontological manufacture from the owning class!
So we are to just ignore science then? Is science also a tool of the bourgeoisie?
Science is not objective, it's deeply subjective. For example, humans are fish and there's no such thing as trees, according to a couple of bugs in the laws of taxonomy. While we can identify highly consistent laws at the fundamental level of physics, each added layer of complexity that drives science closer to our immediate perceptions, introduces more problems and bugs.
By the time we get to sciences like taxonomy, food science, and sociology which deal in our direct experiences, science is obviously almost entirely subjective. And I don't mean it's without merit. I mean that our opinions have a deep deep influence on the direction in which science develops. Our findings are true, given those opinions.
Science does not identify objective truth. Science expands knowledge from axioms. The more complex the things we deal with, the more axioms we must add. At the fundamental level, we have few axioms. At the socio-perceptual level, we have hundreds of unconscious axioms.
Antirealism advocates that we take control of our axioms, instead of denying them. Because if we deny them, we will be vulnerable to attempts to change them. We won't even notice when the media shifts them in us. But if we choose our axioms, then we choose what paths science goes down, we choose the future of our knowledge generation. We choose our world. And then science tells us about the world we have chosen.
clapping as they come down from the podium
"That was incredible! Where do we start?"
"I don't know, we just need to do something. Let someone else figure that out."
I recommend an immediate anarchist revolution, dismantling the state and giving control of the means of production to labour unions and the employees at the businesses who use them. In transitioning to a moneyless and stateless gift economy, we can turn to the experts in gift economics: Indigenous Australians, who have 65,000 years of experience in moneyless economics and the cultural constructs which support such a system. Things will not be the same as they were before colonisation. They will be something new, something we can discover together, if we learn from the past.
It does help to see people aware of the issues, even if they don't know how to personally solve the problems caused by massive, global, centuries-old patterns we're in the middle of. I don't know about you but I'd go nuts if I thought I was alone over here.