How can you tell one theory from another
and is science better than religion
and this and that?
After a lot of arm waving it should be
conceded that the final call is
ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ. That because we are monkeys
because we are so far from God, we cannot
set knowing the truth as the standard
for choosing among the models we can
produce. We must set our ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ
compass towards the more true. What Wittgenstein called the true enough. And
then the question is well how do you how
do you recognize that? Well this is a
rich field of human study called
philosophy of science or theory
epistemology and ontology, how do we
know what is real? But Plato who all the
rest of philosophy is a footnote upon,
Plato said you know that the key lay in
the concepts the good, the true and the
beautiful. The good, what is it?
Tricky, tricky, tricky ...
The true, what is it?
Trickier, even trickier...
The beautiful, what is it?
Easy to discern! The beautiful is easy to
discern. You are going to be condemned to
live out the consequences of your taste,
really, really and if you have no taste,
you know, God help you! Because you are
you are self condemned to an appalling
nightmare. You won't be getting it all
the subtle stuff will go by you, 
while your head is filled with
nonsense, foolishness so again the
the metaphor of the dream and of
making choices based on beauty and
beauty is downloaded into the human
cultural milieu largely through dreams.
So that's the way to set the
compass not toward truth not toward the
good not because these aren't fine
things but because they're so slippery
but toward beauty and with that in place
to my mind life, hope follows as a
natural consequence.
