Date:
       Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:21:53 -0400
 From:
       Franz Lee
 To:
       George Drews
       Thursday, March 25, 1999  4.00 PM

Hello George,

Seeing that we both like to take a little drink before we settle down to
philosophic matters, today I open for us a nice, sweet, delicious wine, an
Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen Spätlese, directly from the cellars of the
German Bergstrasse. Although some believe that when the wine is in, the
wit is out, I know that in vino veritas. And with this, Cheers !, we have
arrived at our beloved theme : Veritas, the Truth !

In Western Civilization, the Ancient Greeks have given us this
headache of Alétheia, of Truth. Later the Romans tortured our brains with veritas, and today still the Germans insist on die Wahrheit, on the Truth. Also, the British and the Americans persist that we "tell the truth, and nothing else, but the truth" ! Well, So Help Me, God !

In God We Trust

Apart from the myriads of meanings of "Truth", there is a general consensus of all the erudite scholars that Truth is the correspondence
of Thought or Conception with its Object. In other words, if I think about a "dollar", my "thought dollar" corresponds to, is identical with,  a real dollar. On my "thought dollar" is written  "In God We Trust", and on the real dollar too.  And, if I think such funny things at all, I better Trust in God, more precisely, I better believe in the Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth :  in God, The Father, God, The Son, and God, The Holy Spirit, Here and Forever More, Amen ! This is the reason why everybody starts nearly every second sentence with "I believe..."

Of course, Aristotle was a brilliant thinker, he did not only identify slaves as "speaking-tools", he also explained to us the Alétheia about this asseveration. Later the Scholastics, who invented "veritas" --  the "vino"
the Greeks already drunk – called it an "adaequatio rerum et intellectus",
the correspondence of the thing and the intellect which is recognizing it.
In those days, at least there was still a relation (ein Bezug) between the
thinking "Subject" and the "Object" to be recognized. And this Relation
was Alétheia, was veritas.

Since Descartes, and the victory of the upcoming capitalist class, the
bourgeoisie, the whole relation was destroyed, and Formal Logics was driven to the extreme. A gaping abyss remained between the "internal"
(the thinking) and the "external" (the objective) world. Of course, there
is an "objective" reason for this radical shift towards non-relations, of this severe rupture between physical and intellectual labour, of this atomic detonation in the "division of labour". The Truth about the Relation between Labour (mainly concrete, physical) and Capital (mainly abstract, intellectual) had to be veiled at all costs. The very relation between Labour and Capital is the Truth of the Global System, and this Bezug, this Truth, has names and surnames : Economic Exploitation, Political Domination, Social Discrimination and Human Alienation.

The Truth Ministry

Apart from the Love Ministry, a whole Orwellian Truth Ministry had to be fabricated, to teach us what are "human rights", "democracy", "peace". "human beings", "truth", etc. ; from the cradle to the grave, from the Kindergarten to the University, from Radio, to Television, to Internet, from the "Zeit", to the "New York Times", to the "New African", we are bombarded with the Truth, with Formal Logics. Small wonder that we do not know anything about any Truth anymore. You confirmed everything that I am saying :

"You were talking about the truth in your last
letter, using the question ‘what is true,
what is truth ?’. I believe, the word truth is an
invention of the human being, which means,
that there is no true truth, or you could
say the truth is not true, and will never
become true, for people associate things with it
that are like pigs in deep space:
they will never become reality."

Wahrheit: Wein, Weib und Gesang ?

Our famous German dramatist, Goethe,  had his own definition of Truth, of "Wahrheit" :

"Was fruchtbar ist, allein ist wahr" (Only what is fertile, is true).

If he had left aside the "Wein, Weib und Gesang" attitude, he would have noticed that of all "human beings", nearly all machos are "furchtbar" (terrible), and that most "women" are fertile, are "fruchtbar", consequently, they are the only true and "faithful" ones.

Nietzsche expressed at best the "Truth" of this macho, of this modern
capitalist "Uebermensch" :

"Wahrheit ist diejenige Art von Irrtum, ohne welche eine bestimmte Art von lebendigen Wesen nicht leben koennte."
(Truth is that type of equivocation without which a definite type of living being cannot live.)

Well, these "living beings" are the "human beings", and those "living
beings" who "believe" that they are "human beings", -- in reality, they are considered to be "Speaking-Tools" or "Niggers Without a Soul", never mind, their "Soul Music" or "Soul Food" – and, they "cannot live" without the "Irrtum" (error), without their absolute "belief" in the global system, with all its "democracy", "human rights" and "world peace". I prefer not to be a "human being", just like my blood-buddy Jesus, who sometimes  said remarkable things.

"Knoweth Ye the Truth, and the Truth shall make Thee Free".

For Us :  The Truth is simply the Bezug in its Zillions of Levels, Degrees and Mensions. (See : Our Home Page.)

Well, George, our bottle is empty, my glass is half full, or is it half
empty ?
I will never know !

Warmest regards,

Franz.
(CONTINUATION)