Google Has No Faith In Truth
Having faith in truth is not the same as understanding that truth exists.
Black Nazis? Female Popes? Ethnically diverse Founding Fathers?
How did this happen? Was Google simply a victim of bad coding? Was there a one or a zero in the wrong place? Or was this a revelation of truth? Was this simply a glimpse into the Orwellian world that is Google? Is this our future as a reconstruction of our past?
What I see isn’t a simple coding mistake but a look behind the curtain, down to the very roots of why secular progressives keep making the same mistakes. It’s not a coincidence that they keep satirizing themselves.
They have no faith in truth.
Google’s gaff is showing us is that this world view does not believe in the pursuit of truth. They see the world and humanity as blank slates that can be formed by people in power. If you show and tell people what you think they need to be shown and told, then you can make them into the creatures you believe they should be.
I’m starting to think that the core difference between progressives and others is this view of truth embedded in so many of humanity’s religious stories. It’s especially articulated in the Bible.
Faith in Truth
The idea is that the pursuit of truth will reveal to us the nature of the good, which is indistinguishable from God, and serve as our guiding principle towards a good life. Nobody has any evidence for that. To follow that path is to hope that it turns out that way. In the moments of our life where we are given a choice between a small lie that gets us out of a pinch in the short term, and a truth that will hurt but be beneficial in the long term, we often go for the immediate win.
That is the essence of Faust’s Mephistopheles. The hubris of people to think that they can know enough to subvert the truth and do as they please leads to hell on earth. The same thing happened to Rodion Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. He thought he was smart enough to subvert the very nature of reality. It didn’t work out.
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