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<tt>CONSFACDORB JALAAL >> VANCINCLOCK IKORA REY</tt> | |||
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<tt>REY >> JALAAL</tt> | |||
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:And I’m trying in good faith to lead you to the truth. The Truth to Power manuscripts are pluripotent. There are many ways to read them. | |||
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<tt>JALAAL >> REY</tt> | |||
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:That sounds like an excuse for a failure to discover the true meaning. | |||
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<tt>REY >> JALAAL</tt> | |||
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:You have it all backwards. You’re trying to shuffle the puzzle pieces around until you get an image. You need to know the image before you can arrange the pieces. | |||
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:Think about logic. Here, we define logic as “the governing principle by which a power defines its own existence.” For example, the Hive practice sword logic. | |||
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:What is the governing logic of Truth to Power? | |||
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<tt>JALAAL >> REY</tt> | |||
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:Being nonsense? Being convoluted? Being misunderstood? | |||
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<tt>REY >> JALAAL</tt> | |||
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:Very well, then. Study Truth to Power with an eye for how it means to be misunderstood. | |||
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<tt>JALAAL >> REY</tt> | |||
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:Oh, ascended master, tell me, how are we to obtain actionable intelligence from the way the documents are meant to be misunderstood? | |||
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<tt>REY >> JALAAL</tt> | |||
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:Your centuries of defeatism have left you with a bad case of learned helplessness. The documents are full of possible misunderstandings. One misunderstanding is that they are pointless, just complexity for the sake of confusion. The threads about imbaru and power-from-confusion point this way. This is the stance that most | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||