There is No Truth and There Will Never Be Truth

Words are words like your hands are hands. You change the world with either but only hold words to a superior moral standard. Is there truth to your front door – to remain locked before you turn the key? Is there truth that a stone must lie still, before you skip him across the lake? No. This is absurd.

I want to control the future – and if I can't, I might as well try to predict it. We call a particularly accurate predictor "truth". We cannot know some underlying reality that dictates how the celestial bodies dance. We can invent a beautiful model to predict what we might see next. When this model falls apart, have we done something "bad"?

It's not evil to be wrong. It's not a sin to develop an non-predictive model. You will not be cast out for telling a child to be good so that Santa might bring her gifts. In this same way, you do no wrong when you invent lies for political or personal gain. In this same way, you do no wrong when you build a house to place a roof over your head. Or does the rain have the right to fall down on you?

If you want something, take it – take it with your hands or take it with your tongue. Both of these are your instruments of will, meant to carry personal commandments onto the world that surrounds you. There is no distinction!

Before you stands a dog. You can call out either "sit" or "roll over". Whatever you command, the dog will do. Before you sits an authority. Don't confuse "you must tell the truth" with "you must put your head on the stake". You owe the head more loyalty than you owe the head of state. That which keeps you free. That which liberates. That is what is right.