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As civilizations collapse, chaos will likely increase, but even though we anticipate it, this change will be disorienting to the individuals who experience it. The solipsistic fallacy causes us to see ourselves as eternal or disconnected observers instead of people subjected to changes in our world.

This solipsistic fallacy insists that the self is greater than the world, so if something is wrong with the world, the world must be replaced, usually with a human order.

That moralism leads in turn to militant anti-realism:

The most common misunderstanding of idealism is the solipsistic fallacy, which is the notion that the world exists within the mind and vanishes when we are not there to see it. This flatters the human ego.

The big point of the solipsistic fallacy is the notion that the world will never change, but will remain as it was when you came of age, no matter what you do, when in fact it constantly changes and unless you steer it toward replicating the world that was, all of that good stuff gets replaced by entropy:

This mental state suggests to those in its grip that the world is unchanging, and that only the decisions of the individual matter, as if they were made in a perpetual present tense where time did not pass and actions did not have consequences.

It can be equated at the individual level to simply getting old, because things start to happen to your body you may even have thought of or seen it in your elders, but when it happens to yourself, it comes as a blinding surprise. You, too, are mortal; you too, are subject to changes in your world.

Making sense of normal life is difficult enough and in hindsight impossible because time moved on, demonstrating that whatever you thought was happening became, over time, easier, worse, different or something else entirely.

Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst who provided presidential briefings, said that he based his briefings not on opinion but facts, even though facts can change the next day. He later discovered that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) input was intentionally ignored during the Trump-Russia debacle when Clapper stated on the record that all seventeen intelligence agencies agreed.

It becomes obvious that people dislike inconvenient facts, so the fact is that making facts up makes a lot of sense. So, the question becomes, how does one make sense of sense?

We have previously discussed the linguistic techniques of scenario planning and sensemaking that was developed around the year 2000, but now other disciplines are joining in the effort. These include military analysts that point out that military history is not applicable anymore, educational analysts saying we have raised our kids the wrong way, legal experts saying that constitutions should not be amended and myself saying in 2010 Minneapolis that Government Departments should assess/analyze the safety of their function on a continuous basis, instead of just looking at risk.

All of this fits very solidly in a postmodern time since postmodernism focuses on pluralism, or considering multiple possibilities as simultaneously true or at least truth-equivalent. This means that there no longer is a single objective reality, much as Galileo showed that the Earth was not the center of the universe, and relativism pointed out that reality is somewhat fluid relative to the observer.

The way the US Government is approaching this dilemma is to distinguish between information and disinformation which points to how they depend on the linguistic meaning of all facts. The FBI used linguistic techniques not just to put the past facts into perspective, but to project future facts guiding the eager sense(ation) media.

This technique has since been put into overdrive across the entire Government i.e., throughout all its departments such as education, justice, agriculture, defense, police, health etc. Retired ambassador Chas Freeman recently stated that it is apparently a fact that nobody starts a negotiation by immediately going to their bottom line, a mistake he attributes to the Russians (Putin) during the entire Ukraine affair which he thinks was unrealistic.

However, he continues to describe other facts that changed to different facts in this same process with one reason/cause being that geographically the Russian fact with respect to spheres of influence, is different to the American fact regarding the same being protected by two oceans. Another fact mentioned is that no American citizen, no Ukrainian citizen, no Russian citizen wanted war in Ukraine, indicating the fact that only US/UK and Russian leadership wanted it even if it does not make sense.

He then describes how America has the temerity of insisting its enemies surrender unconditionally which then allow them to reconstruct the prior enemy to America’s preferred (unthreatening) moral construct, they themselves do not adhere to (of course). In fact, America and the West are prisoners of their own propaganda. The ambassador then ends his message by saying that what he observes, is the end of the 500-year European hegemony.

This does not mean we should fall and cry, it just means we now face the future fact that we can go home and fix things in peace, such as what the sense of it all is. Fortunately, we have one person that has been doing just that, and it is an Afrikaans speaking legal professional in South Africa (which I have met) that has been spending his time to contemplate everything that happened since he lost his country.

His name is Professor Koos Malan and despite a terrible accent, he tries to explain his sometimes-unbearable sense of the facts pointing to the Downfall of the South African Civil Religion as follows. There are remarkable coincidences with the American issues described by Chas Freeman above, because Chas mentioned that he was in fact, the mediator/coordinator ending the Angolan war, which coincided with the end of the cold war and the initiation of the illusional neoliberal world order depicted by the savior Mandela.

Over time this messiah transformed to Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, despite not being the same type of person at all. The reason Mandela was viewed as a savior is because the new South Africa was seen as a miracle, and its constitution as a holy document. However, the same is not true for Zelenskyy, but still he is paraded around the world as if he is a savior, demonstrating the illusionary qualities of New World Order declared by Bush senior in 1992.

Malan says that during and after the development of the new South African Constitution, widely lauded as the best in the world, problems started to appear. Some people wanted to add amendments to it almost as one would do with a document just by re-issuing a different version number. He makes the point that Constitutions are not normal documents and that amendments are impossible, because a constitution can only change if the people change.

If that happens the entire constitution must be re-constituted, not amended. I would like to add that it makes sense from a system point of view, because new peoples require a new system, not an updated system. In other words, something from scratch. As he then went on to say, that all of this was done by people, just people, or humans — pointing to the human condition causing a civic religion, resulting in a doctrine of salvation, a soteriology.

Soteriology is a noun with the following description (American Heritage Dictionary):

1. The branch of theology dealing with the nature and means of salvation.
2. A discourse on health; the art of promoting and preserving health; hygiene.
3. That branch of theology which treats of the salvation of men through Jesus Christ

The search for a savior makes finding a savior necessary in order to rationalize changes that have occurred or that ideologically we want to occur, so Mandela and Zelenskyy must become saviors just like Martin Luther King Jr and Harvey Milk.

This sense makes the most sense to me, but what should we make of it, is perhaps the next question. If I look at my wife, who just ignores it because she has better and more important things to do, I am tempted to follow her example. But will that turn out to be the fact in future?

Humans are illusionary animals and will always be. We need systems that accommodate that (not AI). Therefore, we need a new constitution, a new religion, a new doctrine of salvation of the sins of Bush’s New World Order (NWO), replacing it with a New American Constitution (NAC) we can all live with.

Tags: nelson mandela, new american constitution, sensation, Sense, soteriology, volodymyr zelenskyy