The World is Knowable
Welcome to ArchDeceiver.net! The purpose of this site is to advocate for and help foster a rational understanding of the world, primarily by online publication of my original writings on various topics. A rational understanding of the world teaches humility, fuels creativity, and encourages peace and productive dynamism in society.
Works currently published on this site include the following:
- Capitalism and Socialism in the 21st Century, by James D. Carter
- Resolution of the Continuum Hypothesis and Related Commentary, by James D. Carter
These two works may be read in their entirety on this site, and can be found under the Books section, either in the menu at the left of this page or the menu at the top. (The menu at the top only displays on certain screen sizes.)
Additional works will continue to be published on this site as they are written. Check back from time to time to find new original works!
The world is knowable. This means that there is nothing about the world that is fundamentally or constitutively beyond the human mind's ability to grasp. The world today is faced with many profound problems, and in the midst of such problems the anti-rational mindset is often powerfully inviting, and deceptively comforting. This mindset encourages us to see the world as inexplicable, as veiled beyond a certain fundamental point by the unbreachable shroud of greater powers than we.
But this picture of the world is an illusion, brought on by fear, reinforced by uncertainty and unpredictable change, fed to the brim by tyrants seeking to subjugate their fellow citizens. The truth is that humans possess full rational capacity, and since the world is, and must be, inherently rational, we are already equipped with the primary tool necessary to understand it, and thus to modify its natural state deliberately in order to solve the pressing problems with which we are faced. Those who would subdue us would have us believe otherwise, would have us believe that we are not strong, that we are not capable, that we must let them guide us and do for us and control us. Ultimately, they do this because they fear the rational capacity of those they would subdue and its ability to make tyranny obsolete.
A rational understanding of the universe proceeds from and is a precursor of individual freedom in a cooperative, decentralized society. Such a society encourages, and is reinforced by, rational thinking, and so such a society perpetuates and strengthens a deeper understanding of the universe. A safe, cooperative, and prosperous society in which we all have the freedom to determine the course of our own lives and find fulfillment and happiness in our own way is a society that is not merely idealistic: it is a possible society in the real world. But achieving this kind of society in every corner of the globe involves rejecting the anti-rational mindset and acknowledging the reality that the entirety of the world is rational and cannot be otherwise, and this is often a difficult thing to acknowledge.
But we must remember that rationality and freedom coincide in society, that the one cannot be had without the other. We must find ways to think more clearly, ask more boldly, tread more purposefully. Only then may we lay bare the deeper secrets of the world, and only then may we live in a society that gives us the freedom to learn and discover.