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description: In this essay is attempted the venture of laying a foundation for a transcendental critique of the science of Memology in the intersection of Peak Oil Theory and Philosophy. In the first book of its kind, Haag provides an analysis of the problems of Peak Oil (inspired by the work of John Michael Greer, Richard Heinberg, and Dmitry Orlov) through a rigorous encounter with the greatest Western philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Zizek. Haag argues that deep memes, such as the meme of progress, provide the underlying structural features of consciousness according to a geometrical bias which twists supposedly neutral linguistic concepts to fit a certain shape, such as the Agrarian Circle, the Hunter Gatherer Level Plane, the Fossil Fuel Ascending Ray, and the Salvage Bell Curve, . Truth, therefore, simply is the fit between a shallow meme circulating in a culture and the deep meme to which it must have a minimal correspondence in order to be true. But in our era of depleting fossil fuels, the deep meme of progress is starting to fade from consciousness as the standard of truth. Surviving the transition to the next era will mean losing the very notion of what we took for granted to be the Truth.
title: A Critique of Transcendental Memology: A Peak Oil Philosophy of Truth