# Alethempeiria (truth-experience) is the last game in town

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**Created:** [May 15, 2026, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/alethempeiria-truth-experience-is-the-last-game-in-town/85414 "2026-05-15T22:21:03Z")
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### Author: ![Zeroeth\_Nature](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/zeroeth_nature/32/20746_2.png) [@Zeroeth\_Nature](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Zeroeth_Nature)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/alethempeiria-truth-experience-is-the-last-game-in-town/85414/158 "2026-09-03T12:32:49Z")

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> [@Zeroeth\_Nature](#):
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> “The truth is not outside of creating, it is rather the carrying-out of creating itself. The truth is the composing of truthful show.” (Picht, _Nietzsche_, page 319, my translation.)
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> "He who by art produces tragedy, who by art can enchant men through the production of the beautiful gods, by this very fact is disenchanted

“Socrates’ turn to the human taught him that the humans in charge, the males in charge, judge nature to act unbearably toward humans, like a sea always in motion, always threatening humans and human constructs with destruction, always failing to distinguish worthy from unworthy. Xenophon’s images bring to light Socrates’ insight into the male need to master feared and hated nature, to conquer nature. They show Socrates, the student of nature and human nature, learning that he will have to persuade ruling males of what he learned they would dearly want to believe, that nature is not what she seems but wholly otherwise, end-directed for human benefit by caring gods who ensure that the worthy benefit and the unworthy suffer. Socrates has no quarrel with nature, but he teaches a fiction to make it appear that the male quarrel with nature misunderstands nature. To this degree, Socrates’s teleotheology is itself a project to master nature, to rule it conceptually; it is a conquest of nature that orders nature in accord with human wishes; it is a male project, the project of a real real man to conquer nature conceptually—if only exoterically." (Lampert, _The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss_, page 126.)

Philosophic politics, like Socrates’, is not foremost about protecting philosophy from the non-philosophers, or protecting the non-philosophers from philosophy, or even helping potential philosophers actualise themselves—let alone about the grand political enterprises dreamt of by the likes of Jakob. The real real man builds his castles in the sky, much like the “real men” build their sandcastles in the path of the waves, but _unlike_ them, he does so precisely for that fleeting show to bring the lasting truth into relief.

> [@My Musical Qabalah.](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/my-musical-qabalah/47263/69):
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> “Nietzsche does not say, as would have to be said from the standpoint of metaphysics: The will to truth is the will to _knowledge_ of the steadfast, the true, the permanent; he rather says: ‘The will to truth is a _making_ steadfast, a _making_ true, permanent’, a reinterpretation of show [_Schein_] into Being [_Sein_]. When one first makes what is to be known as true oneself, when one gains Being only thereby that one reinterprets show into Being, then the will which accomplishes that cannot avoid eventually discovering that what it must first _make_ steadfast is not yet steadfast by itself, and that the permanence which it must first _create_ is not already given in advance. As Nietzsche puts the concept ‘will to truth’ in place of _knowledge_ of the truth, he has thus carried out the great inversion.” (Georg Picht, _Nietzsche_, page 281, my translation.)

> [@The Philosophers](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/the-philosophers/40779/2557):
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> **Why be a noetic mover and shaker? Why be a prime unnumber?**
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> “Yoga and Maya [“illusion”] are two sides of the same coin, states Zimmer, because what is referred to as Maya by living beings who are enveloped by it, is Yoga for the Brahman (Universal Principle, Supreme Soul) whose yogic perfection creates the Maya.” (Wikipedia, “Maya (religion)”.)
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> !["Lord Brahma begins Creation"](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e5744753f50b11b95fccf8d83c8e7d8402623778.jpeg)  
> **_Or does its mayic creation perfect its Yoga?_… Does a God need to move in order to be unmoved?**

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