Truth

HEGE Series

Rabbit-Hole 01

• Humanity

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    • Modernism
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      • Christmas
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      • Exulanten (Exiles)
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    • Pinocchio
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      • Intentional Community
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        • Secularism
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        • Gnosticism
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      • Iconography
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      • Truth
      • Love
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      • Challenges
      • Lazar Puhalo

Truth is essential to humanity and life, because only the truth is real. It's no wonder then that a lot of fuss is made over it. MOD•wiki is dedicated to well researched, logical, reasoned analysis and critical thinking, not contentious, empassioned argumentativeness, much less lying, manipulative propaganda. MOD•wiki is the sum total of evidence and exhibits that I compile to argue my case that Modernity is not what it claims or is thought to be. We moderns are pigeons in a type of The Truman Show, where the everyday people we meet aren't actors who are in on the shill, but fellow puppets of the powers that be. When I finish compiling and commenting, and you the reader finish purveying my evidence, exhibits and arguments, then I rest my case for you to judge, jury, and execute your verdict. Each and every one of us has free will to choose, but that comes with the consequence of having to bear responsibility for our choices.

Fact or Fiction?

It's always been hard enough to separate fact from fiction, but in this day and age of deception, illusion, and delusion (and now AI Deepfakes), I'm not sure it's possible any more, especially when most today seem to have forgotten their 3rd grade lessons for distinguishing between the two. On top of that, we're bombarded daily by Propaganda. As Alex Carey has noted, Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet. Politifact.com and Snopes.com can help, but most of us make decisions based on our emotions, not facts, and often fail to distinguish between what isn't factual but merely opinion or an impression, what's only possibility or probability, circumstantial, anecdotal, or conjectural.

The court of public opinion is just that — opinion, not fact, or necessarily good judgement. It's nothing but mass mentality, or herd mentality that's easily manipulated into political “constituency”, or mob, by those who know how — who have means, motive, and opportunity (See — Criminal investigation). It's true that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. But a lot of the people are fooled a lot of the time, and typically refuse to listen or follow the few who historically aren't fooled and who exhibit good judgement.

In the Information Age, it's imperative to train ourselves to think like lawyers building court cases. We must learn the basics of logical fallacies so as not to fall prey to them. How many today know the difference between raising the question and begging the question, especially when their arguments mainly consist of ad hominem attacks on those they oppose? If we cannot concede to “point taken” or that we simply don't know, then we are not reasoned beings. And if our evidence is unreasonable and will not stand up in court, then we must accede lest we be thrown out of court and lose our conviction, or worse, maintain it on the false basis of claims to “conspiracy theory”, “truthiness”, or “alternative facts” and become guilty of slandering our neighbor.

Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies !
Thou shalt not suffer cognitive biases !

It's taken me a lifetime to unravel the mystery of Modernity, and that's what this wiki is about — information gathered and organized in such a way as to aid in seeing through the noise and confusion of the world in which we live, to the heart of Modernity.

MOD•wiki is not a conventional wiki that seeks to catalog factual information, which may not even be entirely possible because humans are subjective, tend toward some degree of bias or another, and are corrupted by falsehood. That's evident in how sometime before June 29, 2022 it was discovered that — Someone Slipped Hundreds of Fake Articles About Things That Never Happened Onto Wikipedia. Apparently, Chinese and Russian language versions of Wikipedia suffer from this the most, but the English version is not immune either. (See Wikipedia links below that illustrate complexities and controversies surrounding Wikipedia attempts to maintain veracity and objectivity.)

Such as the Wikipedia controversies won't happen here because I'm sole administrator, but that in itself is an issue of objectivity. It follows then that this site is only as convincing as the evidence and the arguments I present. I follow the principle of what I call C3 methodology — Clear, Concise, Comprehensive (but not exhaustingly exhaustive). The content here is presented for analysis and interpretation; it primarily consists of links to outside information with some quotes from linked pages together with my comments. I also try to include pop culture associations where possible to enable information to make more of a connection with everyday life, and to hammer it home, sink it deep into memory so it sticks.

Information selected and how it's organized is key. For instance, Planned obsolescence is a marketing strategy so I've placed it as a subcategory of Marketing (which is a subcategory of Business). Fashion is a subcategory of Planned obsolescence because it functions in the Economy primarily that way. It could be argued that Fashion is primarily Art or Culture, (and I do mention and link to it there secondarily) but that would only obscure the role Fashion plays in the Economy by way of Planned obsolescence, and the role of Economy as the primary idol of Modernity.

History of Wikipedia • What Wikipedia is not • No original research • Accuracy dispute • Verifiability • Criticism of Wikipedia • Do not create hoaxes • List of hoaxes on Wikipedia • Reliability of Wikipedia • Wikipedia is not reliable • Conflict of interest editing

Wikipedia Review | Wikipedia
The Wikipedia Review]
Wikipediocracy | Wikipedia

Wikipediocracy
Our Mission: We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world’s most frequently visited websites, the “encyclopedia that anyone can edit....
[E]ven after 20 years of existence [Jan 24th, 2022], it’s still too easy for Wikipedia to be manipulated by clever and/or tenacious bad actors, even when those bad actors aren’t particularly well-versed on the rules, or even particularly skilled at lying.

Fallacy (Error)

In the Information Age, it's imperative to train ourselves to think like lawyers building court cases. We must learn the basics of logical fallacies so as not to fall prey to them. How many today know the difference between raising the question and begging the question, especially when their arguments mainly consist of ad hominem attacks on those they oppose? If we cannot concede to “point taken” or that we simply don't know, then we are not reasoned beings. And if our evidence is unreasonable and will not stand up in court, then we must accede lest we be thrown out of court and lose our conviction, or worse, maintain it on the false basis of claims to “conspiracy theory”, “truthiness”, or “alternative facts” and become guilty of slandering our neighbor.

Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies !
Thou shalt not suffer cognitive biases !

Wikipedia

Sometime before June 29, 2022 it was discovered that —
Someone Slipped Hundreds of Fake Articles About Things That Never Happened Onto Wikipedia.
Apparently, Chinese and Russian language versions of Wikipedia suffer from this the most, but the English version is not immune either.

History of Wikipedia • What Wikipedia is not • No original research • Accuracy dispute • Verifiability • Criticism of Wikipedia • Do not create hoaxes • List of hoaxes on Wikipedia • Reliability of Wikipedia • Wikipedia is not reliable • Conflict of interest editing

Wikipediocracy | Wikipedia

Wikipediocracy
Our Mission: We exist to shine the light of scrutiny into the dark crevices of Wikipedia and its related projects; to examine the corruption there, along with its structural flaws; and to inoculate the unsuspecting public against the torrent of misinformation, defamation, and general nonsense that issues forth from one of the world’s most frequently visited websites, the “encyclopedia that anyone can edit....
[E]ven after 20 years of existence [Jan 24th, 2022], it’s still too easy for Wikipedia to be manipulated by clever and/or tenacious bad actors, even when those bad actors aren’t particularly well-versed on the rules, or even particularly skilled at lying.

Wikipedia Review | Wikipedia
The Wikipedia Review

Reality or Deception (Illusion, Delusion)?

The Truman Show | Wikipedia - Trailer
— Truman Burbank, “Chosen out of six unwanted pregnancies to be the first child legally adopted by a Corporation”
“True Man”: the one who comes to understand the true corporate controlled condition of modern man and choses to forsake it all for Real Life

Quiz Show (film) | Wikipedia — Trailer

Twilight Zone: The Movie | Wikipedia — Trailer

Simulacron-3 (Counterfeit World) | Wikipedia — 1964 science fiction novel
World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) | Wikipedia — Trailer YouTube based on Simulacron-3
The Thirteenth Floor | Wikipedia — Trailer loosely based on Simulacron-3

The Matrix (franchise) | Wikipedia
  — Trailers: Matrix 1999, Reloaded 2003, Revolutions 2003, Resurrections 2021

The Matrix Tried To Warn You — @Moon-Real | YouTube