The strongest evolutionary advantage was not to know the actual truth. It was to have one perceived truth with your tribe. Biology makes usefulness always dominate objectivity.
The biggest danger for truth comes from this model: Bullshit is a partial truth combined with usefulness and packed in a beautiful story. Bullshit is easy to create and thrives everywhere. The Truth team is small and has one goal: to fight the Bullshit. Team Truth cannot monitor all the Bullshit. There is no prevention, only partial damage control.
You either love the ideal of truth and fight for it or the evolutionary forces will lead you into some Bullshit group. This hinders your potential in The Game of Life, where objectivity and understanding are the keys to success.
Bullshit is the main tool of control over the masses because of our biological susceptibility to it. We have to constantly resist. Your true allies are flows and the intelligence-defining power of prediction.
There are two different types of trust. Emotional trust is about people’s intentions and is carried by love. Intellectual trust is about people’s competence and is carried by structure. Emotional trust is built into us at a very deep subconscious level. Intellectual trust is a very adult feeling that requires a fully developed brain and is boosted by education and diversity of experience. We’re always talking about one type of trust, with a trap word representing both, which creates a mess of epic proportions.
Trust is at the crossroads of all human experience. The Love-Fear spectrum is the central Human one, and the Chaos-Structure one is the central Universal one. The two types of trust are fundamental human expressions of life’s core forces. When we evolved, emotional trust (connection) was everything. Intellectual trust was nowhere. Emotional trust will always be critical for our survival and wellbeing as it keeps us out of malicious people’s way. Intellectual trust is essential to find the objective truth. If you don’t differentiate between intellectual and emotional trust, you simply apply only the emotional trust.
The Love for Truth is distinctly human. In people with a high level of meaning, who see the world as one whole and have no barriers between themselves, their potential futures, and the world’s future, Truth connects to usefulness and prosperity for everyone via science and technology. Such people feel the value of Truth for everyone, and thus, fighting for the Truth becomes their form of love to the world.
The fight for Truth needs many pre-requirements to even be able to start – flows, Love for Truth, intellectual trust, good education, diversity of experience, not to be indoctrinated in a Bullshit group. But you need them all nevertheless, so you have only one battle in life – everything is connected to everything.
Finding the Truth has two approaches – direct (logical) and indirect (intuitive). The second one brings you closer to the truth rather than exactly at it, but is the only available in messy situations with a lot of Bullshit floating around. The direct approach is great for simpler questions with a definitive true answer.
If you bring one person closer to the truth, you change a life. Facts won’t help without you showing love, acceptance, vulnetability and care.
