Americans’ “leader” cadre — professors, clergy, medical doctors, warriors, lawyers, mothers — have worked their way into a condition of epistemological catastrophe and are dragging Americans and citizens of many nations into the caldron with them.
An epistemological catastrophe is a condition wherein what one believes is not the same as what is “out there” beyond the contours of one’s belief. Atheism, for example, is an epistemological catastrophe. So is thinking it’s a good idea to take revenge on someone. So is saying you mean well when everyone can see clearly that you mean to be mean, that your actions go in the opposite direction from your words, which is a condition of catastrophic self-destruction.
An epistemological catastrophe is believing the IO which tells you that evil Russia and her infernal leader are being defeated by brave, noble, pure, and upright Ukrainians sacrificing themselves for the cause of freedom and democracy rather than accepting developments as shown on maps and by orders of battle. Ditto believing that the great majority of Americans are worthless relics of a by-gone era whom it is just as well to eliminate, encourage and force to self-attrit, and turn into serfs as quickly and completely as possible. That too is an epistemological catastrophe, one with electoral consequences although not necessarily vote counting consequences.
When your IO is turned on your own people because your activities are so nefarious and odious to them, and to yourself even, that you are willing to do anything, willing to stop at nothing, to avoid punishment for your activities, you have worked your way into an epistemological catastrophe. Correlatively, when your fantasies and passions are so enticing — yet clearly ludicrous — that you cannot abandon them without soul-splitting agony, you have worked your way into an epistemological catastrophe.
Americans’ “leader” cadre — professors, clergy, medical doctors, warriors, lawyers, mothers — have worked their way into a condition of epistemological catastrophe and are dragging Americans and citizens of many nations into the caldron with them.
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By Artists M and F Graham
At Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India
