And you are pointing right at the main problem I have with your using the word childish or children, Benjamin, as the essential explanation.
It is structurally illogical to say that the essence is found with a part of the whole.
One cannot say 1 when this 1 is a third of the whole, or two-thirds of the whole. It is illogical and therefore automatically off.
It would be like saying that it is the engine why we drive around in cars. While that is understood as essential, one cannot have an engine and drive around in it. One does need the larger structure of the car. No larger structure, no car.
It is not possible to pick one essential aspect and then say that's it.
Still not sure if you got the larger point.
Power is not based on truths or lies. Power is based on power. When the lie is accepted as the truth for the well-functioning of society, then the lie has become the truth for that society, even when the lie is indeed still a lie.
The simple example is language. There is no truth in the sounds we speak or the letters that we write. It is our communal agreement that we take these sounds and letters and accept them as specific truths, even when their truths are not contained in the words themselves.
This points again at that same overall reality in which Gödel's work is essential. We cannot come to a single overall conclusion because it will automatically be incorrect.
Point at something singular, and lift it up to represent the whole, and it will be a falsehood made a truth, held in place by people but not by facts.
Good luck, Benjamin. You are on an excellent road and I don't want you to take a detour. I just want you to recognize the line in the sand. We can, for instance, say that God is One. Yet once we get closer to God, we must let go of the idea that God is One throughout because God cannot be a Cyclops. God must have symmetry and basically two eyes (from our perspective), otherwise we could not have been created in God's image.
God does not show us the line in the sand. We have to understand that line in the sand for ourselves. Before the line, we can focus on downtown as a single entity. After the line, we are in downtown, and we have to accept that downtown is not singular but rather diverse.
