It’s been said elsewhere that a man’s not knowing or not knowing much about a thing has never prevented him from speaking about it. To ourselves we are (please disagree) pretty much experts about the reality of things. Lacking claim of knowing everything does not in any way diminish our own persuasion that we are, and to ourselves, as much in touch with reality as any other…(and often persuaded, more so). We know what has happened to us or around us, what things have touched us by experience, what things reinforce our knowing of what we know, and/or that we even do…know. Things that reinforce to us our knowing, and that our knowing is real. We are fully persuaded our own consciousness is real, and more, that it could never be found as all working in us according to fraud.
For who could take kindly to this statement “You have no idea what you are doing” or if followed by this question “Do you?”…? For we all believe that fundamentally we have reason for what we do as according to who we are. And for as much as either time would allow or inclination be abundantly present we could supply all the reason(s) we are what and who we are, and why and to what end…we do what we do. We are quite sure in such matter all our reason and reasoning is sound, or else plainly…we would be someone else. We are sure we are who we are…with reason. And to the extreme…with even good reason. Who could bear the facing, could any bear such facing(?) that all our own reason (and reasoning) are merely an invented thing of our own self? Is there anything a man considers more sound to himself than his own reasoning?
I do not mean to rehash what was stated previously, but it is inescapable. If reason only exists as a product or construct of man in a material universe, that is, that it has no reality to be found in or for the universe prior to man’s appearing; it cannot be identified as either a transcendent matter or even native matter…but only a construct, a contrivance, an invention of man…and as such is as malleable, as subject to manipulation and revision by any man as anything else man creates. Our (even if total) agreement as to how reason is accorded some place of immutability (not unlike truth) is also, and no less, such a construct. Again we find foundations in which we were once sure of immovability, or even supreme compass, is as fragile and useless as dust to us for navigations. Yet we are full of them. Reasons and reasonings whereby we undertake all we undertake.
And we live here, thinking (our) reason in some ways supreme, yet notwithstanding able to easily pronounce when vexed by question of its supremacy…”Don’t be concerned, “I have my reasons”…(for doing or being such and such). And so reason, as no less truth, is as easily assigned to being “one’s own” (as in “speak your truth”) and is de facto no more than opinion. Its self claim of supremacy is also therefore cleverly cloaked in total immunity for every man freely possesses what is “his own”. And who can deny every man not only holds his own opinions overall, but is also and no less assured, he is entitled to them?
So, it is not even so much that reason and reasoning might be manipulated, it is already the all that can be, and is…totally, constantly, irrevocably. Man manipulating all he is subject to of himself, a god of his own creation as over him, but in all ways, and no less, subject to his whim and circumstance. The man who says “you should never steal” on one day, full of all his reason(s) for saying so (or even believing it to himself with all reason) might find in a week of starvation an untended loaf of bread. And how much more reason now dictates something else. Throw in a starving family for whom he feels responsibility, and you have the makings of all immunity from prior statements or convictions. Man tries to secure himself, even assure himself in all reason, till he finds he cannot. And how easily he may learn of circumstance thrust to him, or upon him, for which and by which his reason is totally powerless to inure against.
But is it really so necessary as to require explanation of how man becomes all indebted in, and to, matters of his own creation? Even life dependent? Let the lights but flicker and find how easily thoughts are turned.
Man’s gods always need attending. And maintenance. Yes, even his reason and reasoning.
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