On the Relationship between the It-It and the Sinking House.

The It-It relationship produces the Sinking House Problem. In the Absence of an I grounded in the Unconscious, Assuredness is absent. Certainty is Impossible, in the absence of a Thou. All abstractions are prone to error and are therefore at best Guesses.

The fallacy of Painting the Tree Red underlies all attempts at Repetition. There is no Truth which is not a feeble, Directed Construct. The inquiry lends itself to Madness: Repetition in pursuit of illusory success.

It is the Socratic appeal: The Barbarism of a trivial pursuit.

One can never trust such reasoning in fairness. The confederacy of intersubjectivity that is the It-It crowd cannot by its mutual agreement be trusted, whatever its numbers, if madness proliferates. Even the people in the I-It mode cannot be trusted, for they only have Assuredness. Certainty belongs to the I-Thou crowd, who cannot comprehend an It as an It and therefore cannot be certain of the integrity of the It-It. There can be no right answer if it is of equal value to a wrong answer, and because things are only true in so far as they are useful, since Madness is the origin of the Inquiry, the inquiry can never yield "truth".

Dm.A.A.