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David W's avatar

I thought you might find this article from the world of cybersecurity interesting, as it also talks about how our ontologies matter so much. https://cptkj.substack.com/p/intro-to-reality-pentesting

Jason Swan Clark's avatar

Thank you for this, it intersects well:

“The goal is to erode a society’s ability to agree on what is real.”

This is indeed the core thesis of my series of articles on ontology.

Article: epistemology is broken (how we process information)

Me: ontology is fractured (what reality is has been destabilised)

They are describing how people get confused. I am asking why reality itself no longer holds people coherently.

The article lives mostly at:

• NeuroCompiler (processing)

• Mind Kernel (beliefs)

I am pushing further down into:

• Cultural Substrate (ultimate reality assumptions)

• and even beyond that into metaphysical grounding

Them in summary: The system has been hacked. Me: The world has lost its coherence because we no longer inhabit the same reality.

Even the most advanced secular frameworks now recognise that the crisis is not just misinformation—but a collapse in our shared sense of reality.

But they still assume that reality can be repaired from within the fractured systems. Christian faith does not repair reality from within. It announces that reality has already been restored in Christ—and invites us back into it. The deeper problem is not simply that our minds are being misled, but that our world has lost its centre—and no amount of cognitive defence can restore what only participation in Christ can reconstitute.

They are mapping how reality fractures. I am trying to share how, for Christians, reality is healed. Which is what I think you told me when we spoke!

Penny Newson's avatar

This is like a breath of fresh air 🙏🏻