Truth and Parody

There’s truth and there’s parodies of truth. The truth isn’t dependent on the parodies, but the parodies are completely dependent on the truth, which they pretend to be.

The only substance to the parody is the illusion of its equating to truth. If there were no truth there would be no parody, while if there were no parodies there would only be truth.

So on the one hand the enemy of the parody is truth, which gives the lie to itself, but on the other an imposter needs truth in the first place, and which it pretends to be. The parody has no autonomy.

Moving sideways or onto relativism, within which everything is declared to have equal validity, the simplest way to see this clearly is employing it in the world of mathematics. So two plus two is what? In relativism, every answer is equally valid; thus two plus two equals five or nine or seventeen or any answer you like. Another expression and extension of this thinking is that any answer can identify as the right answer, and so nine identifies as the right answer or as whatever number it likes.

But where we have faith in the meaningfulness of language, which is the necessary basis for all mental activity, then we simply have two plus two equals four. And so the truth puts the lie to all the parodies of truth, and truth is the enemy of the parody or the lie. This is now where “the world” now stands in relation to truth. Truth is the enemy. Losing faith spiritually seamlessly becomes losing faith intellectually also, and finding one’s way into this world of parody and meaninglessness. 

And to move more overtly to the spiritual realm, Satan is described as the father of lies. Christ is also sometimes termed The Logos or the Word, and so spiritual truth and intellectual truth are one, and which is a very unemphasised reality. Instead faith tends in the West to be considered the anti-intellectual stance, but as we see the intellect without faith, including faith in language, becomes a farcical parody. And this where “the world” is with its “Choose your pronouns” and so on. The truth is here the enemy because it gives the lie to the parody.