🧵OBJECTIVE VALUES ≠ ONTOLOGICAL REALISM
People assume “Objective Values” means that values are grounded in something outside the individual’s opinion; therefore they assume it must mean eternal truths, natural law, or God-given rights. But here’s what it actually means in systems like Perry’s “New Realism” (or Rand’s Objectivism):
“Objective” means values can be described, classified, or derived from rational observation of effects. What’s “real” is what works within a system. “Objectivity” is measured by coherence, utility, or consensus within a human-defined structure. This is epistemological realism only; rights, dignity, or value are granted conditionally, based on performance, function, or consent.
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People assume “Objective Values” means that values are grounded in something outside the individual’s opinion; therefore they assume it must mean eternal truths, natural law, or God-given rights. But here’s what it actually means in systems like Perry’s “New Realism” (or Rand’s Objectivism):
“Objective” means values can be described, classified, or derived from rational observation of effects. What’s “real” is what works within a system. “Objectivity” is measured by coherence, utility, or consensus within a human-defined structure. This is epistemological realism only; rights, dignity, or value are granted conditionally, based on performance, function, or consent.
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2/ What’s Missing?
💡Ontology
That is; the recognition that man has a nature, a fixed essence and a teleological orientation that cannot be revoked, redesigned, or replaced. Without ontological realism there is no foundation for “inalienable rights”, no basis for conscience, no justification for limits on state or expert power and no “self-evident” truths - only engineered consensus.
Objectivism Does the Same, claiming that “reason” reveals objective truth, but reason is disconnected from ontological being. Objectivist ethics are rationalist-derivative and conditioned by performance, not grounded in the inviolable nature of the person. As with Perry, this leads to morality as behavioural output, rights as conditional recognitions and sovereignty as system-conformance.
💡Ontology
That is; the recognition that man has a nature, a fixed essence and a teleological orientation that cannot be revoked, redesigned, or replaced. Without ontological realism there is no foundation for “inalienable rights”, no basis for conscience, no justification for limits on state or expert power and no “self-evident” truths - only engineered consensus.
Objectivism Does the Same, claiming that “reason” reveals objective truth, but reason is disconnected from ontological being. Objectivist ethics are rationalist-derivative and conditioned by performance, not grounded in the inviolable nature of the person. As with Perry, this leads to morality as behavioural output, rights as conditional recognitions and sovereignty as system-conformance.
3/ Why This Deception Works
Because the term “objective” is used as linguistic bait. It mimics Natural Law language while replacing its metaphysical foundations. People think they are being offered Truth, Order, Moral Clarity; but they are receiving Management, Compliance Ethics and Behavioural metrics.
Veilcraft - The “Objective” Trap; systems like Perry’s “New Realism” use the word objective to imply metaphysical grounding, but in fact sever all metaphysical roots; anchoring values in system-defined functions rather than being (ontology). This is how moral economy becomes moral technocracy.
Because the term “objective” is used as linguistic bait. It mimics Natural Law language while replacing its metaphysical foundations. People think they are being offered Truth, Order, Moral Clarity; but they are receiving Management, Compliance Ethics and Behavioural metrics.
Veilcraft - The “Objective” Trap; systems like Perry’s “New Realism” use the word objective to imply metaphysical grounding, but in fact sever all metaphysical roots; anchoring values in system-defined functions rather than being (ontology). This is how moral economy becomes moral technocracy.
4/ Forensic Contrast; Epistemological v Ontological Realism
5/ For Citizens of a Constitutional Republic
Mistaking epistemological realism for ontological realism severs the foundation of inalienable rights. It reduces liberty to system compliance, truth to consensus, and sovereignty to managed behaviour. Without ontological realism (truth grounded in being, not belief) there can be no true self-governance. The People become subjects of expertise, not authors of law. The Republic becomes a simulation.
For Christians
If you mistake epistemological realism for ontological realism, you risk trading the Logos for logic. Faith becomes psychological assent and morality becomes utility. Without ontological realism (truth grounded in the being of God and the nature of creation) Christianity collapses into moralism, and the Incarnation becomes just a metaphor. The faith is hollowed from within and thereby also highly susceptible to sublation within Hermeticism (One World Religion) even while it retains its own ‘apparent’ distinct rhetorical mask.
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Mistaking epistemological realism for ontological realism severs the foundation of inalienable rights. It reduces liberty to system compliance, truth to consensus, and sovereignty to managed behaviour. Without ontological realism (truth grounded in being, not belief) there can be no true self-governance. The People become subjects of expertise, not authors of law. The Republic becomes a simulation.
For Christians
If you mistake epistemological realism for ontological realism, you risk trading the Logos for logic. Faith becomes psychological assent and morality becomes utility. Without ontological realism (truth grounded in the being of God and the nature of creation) Christianity collapses into moralism, and the Incarnation becomes just a metaphor. The faith is hollowed from within and thereby also highly susceptible to sublation within Hermeticism (One World Religion) even while it retains its own ‘apparent’ distinct rhetorical mask.
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