IF IT'S EXPLICABLE, IT ISN'T TRUE | 2007-07-03
Information is a PRODUCT. If you can EXPLAIN WHY someone HAD to say something, it's not true.
Information which can be explained, like information in an infomercial, is sometimes true. It is sometimes true in EXACTLY the same way that a broken watch is right twice a day.
No matter how much you disprove ANYTHING; there remains a finite probability that it is true. The Lizard God may be creating the world at this moment, and you are a figment of your own imagination or of something else you do not know. Nothing is EVER proven beyond ANY doubt.
So let's get real. If I see a watch which doesn't move at all, I assume it is wrong. If someone makes an argument that is perfectly Politically Correct, a statement he MUST make, I assume it is nonsense.
That is ALL I need to prove, if one understands reality at all. You can NEVER prove there is a zero probability of ANYTHING simply because there is nothing for which the actual probability is zero.
I was reading a mail out of Great Courses I could buy. On the cover is a pyramid, and it talks about The Secrets of Ancient Egypt Revealed! One of the many courses offered inside, some of which may be worthwhile, is a History of Civilization. The description of it is exactly like the course I took as a college freshman exactly fifty years ago, with ONE exception.
This "modern" course explains how everything was invented in the Middle East, spread to Greece and then to Rome and finally to the barbarians of Northern Europe. But there is a kicker at the end. At the end it talks about World Civilization and how the Spanish discovered that south of the Rio Grande and how the future lies THERE. Western Civilization is just a blip on the surface of Great Civilization. It was the LATEST blip when I was in school. Now it's a PASSING blip.
One can explain this "history" up to the last bit the old way: If everything came from Ex Oriente Lux, from the Middle East, white people are incidental. Carbon dating has destroyed that whole historical theory FACTUALLY, but that has nothing to do with MARKETING. Once you face that simple fact, the Hispanic Supremacy part, which includes AND excludes the rest of the non-Western world, is easily understood. Ignoring a billion Indians and 1.3 billion Chinese in a summary is explicable of you understand that this book is aimed at the AMERICAN market.
Information is a PRODUCT. If you can EXPLAIN WHY someone said it, it's not true.