Reality By Narrative

I recently published an article about the practical philosophy of phenomenology. Let's look at a practical case study.

Consider commodities prices.

The "reason" oil prices are in retrace of the uptrend is be"cause" of the macro deflationary trend, so the story goes.

The deflationary trend was, in reality, "caused" by the peak price of oil.

The peak price was a fundamental fraud. The story for the uptrend, the narrative, was a fraud. The story for the downtrend is equally, by the necessary tautology of the narrative causational argument (by the validity, not the verification of the argument) a fraud.

Remove the perceptual manipulation of the argument (the phenomenology), what is left to explain the entire cyclical (physical) phenomena of the trends is the consolidation of the capital.

Consolidation of the capital (a lack of pluralism that is the defining characteristic of democracy) is the source, the sole "cause" of the problem.

If you want to "really" solve the problem, eliminating the cause is a necessary condition. Nationalizing the consolidated capital does not solve the problem, it just reorganizes it.

The money flow indicator (the movement of consolidated capital) is the sole determinant of the trends. The story, the narrative, to explain, to justify, the outcome is ex-post-facto: it is a phenomenology. The explanation of the phenomena is argued as the cause when it is "really" an effect (occurring after the fact).

So this is "literally," philosophically, with the legitimacy of the built-in rhetoric of verification (the scientific method), what I mean when I say that government must ensure a deconsolidated capital and markets "in priority." It is a necessary condition for solving "the problem."

So... which is reality: the narrative phenomenology of the political economy, or my reflection (the critique) of the phenomena?

So you see how phenomenology works as a practical philosophy. Reality is just whatever you want it to be, a priori or posteriori. Reality is not independent of perception: phenomena is "really" phenomenon (God, the Spirit, Nature, is pure perception of being, not mere existence). Existence is nothing (no thing) without your perception of it.

It's time to make reality what you want it to be.

It's time to speak truth to power.

Obama 2008!

Very best wishes.