PTB points to the three degrees of thinking that William Golding discovered early in life. I love that ability to place your mind outside of the discourse, look at the background noise, and come with a reason why.
But much more interesting is that question by Golding, “What is the truth?”, that meta-thinking that recognizes the inherent limitation of our thoughts, and dares to go further
There is still a higher grade of thought which says, “What is truth?” and sets out to find it.
But o curse, the very same act of finding fault with the world is, in itself, a form of blindness – a higher one, if you like: We find that there are other points of view, and we try to arrange the world in a logical manner – logical to us, comfortable to our biases and limits. We define the world by simply saying where our limits are.
More interesting, then, is to accept that, for all we know and devise, the world is still going to be ruled by instincts and primeval desires, and our logical fallacy is going to reveal itself in a sudden flurry of temptation, our beautiful rational logic srpinging fangs and claws with which to apprehend that reality.
Because, you see, we are the Thinker, and we are also the Venus, the leopard, the snake. And so is everybody else.
Having having full awareness of this duality of the mind, is this not the point when we discover our signature on the social contract that dictates to us the logic through which we rationalize our surroundings? We accept the logic of protection and preservation at the cost of certain rights and freedoms.