The solution to postmodernism and relativism, explained in …

1. Since all tyrannies are based on dogmas, that is, on fundamental statements of absolute fact, and since all dogmas are based on lies, it behooves us first to seek for truth, and freedom will not be far away. And the truth is ... that we know nothing.

2. Objectively speaking, we know nothing at all. Any system of intellectual thought--whether it be science, logic, religion, or philosophy--is based on certain fundamental ideas or axioms which are assumed, but which cannot be
proved. This is the grave of all positivism.

3. We assume, but we do not KNOW (objectively speaking), that there is a real and objective world outside our own minds. Ultimately, we do not know what we are, or what
the world is.

4. Further, if there is a real world apart from ourselves, we
cannot know what that is; all we can know is what we perceive and theorize it to be.

5. Heretofore, these evidentiary postulates, or similar ones, their matters cognate, and the objective reality of our inability to achieve 100% objectivity, have been misused and wrangled to put forth notions such as postmodernism, moral relativism, and the like.

6. I am about to postulate the way out from that, based entirely upon the assumption of the four postulates being evidentiary truths themselves.

7. To do so is by no means at all to attribute any level of philosophical objectivity or objective reality to them OR to my forthcoming postulate; we are being 100% self-consistent in that here.

8. Simply observe: what works, versus what does not.

This is what actual science does when developing a hypothesis. Actual scientific method bases its hypotheses upon what has demonstrably WORKED and withstood the test of time in doing so.

9. What derives consistent results? What proves itself in the field of application and activity? What holds together cohesively as opposed to falling apart and disintegrating into chaos?

And yet ... even chaos has its role to play ...

10. Because reality itself is a layered sandwich of order and chaos. Order is determinate; chaos is indeterminate. Therefore order is resolute in nature; chaos is where possibilities, not yet filtered or selected, reside.

11. A mind irresolute disintegrates into madness; therefore we observe "order out of chaos" to be the active principle upon which the fabric of reality is woven.

(to be continued)
Working addendum pending continuation:
(A) All religious systems lay claim upon absolute / objective truth. However, as there is no method to remove one's own subjective brain & experience from the equation, there is no way to verify said claim.

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