The Philosophy of The X-Files

Melt with You

A terrible and paralyzing anxiety goes along with this kind of self-exploration, and this too appears in The X-Files

Deduction proves. Induction confirms.

the veil of smoke surrounding the alien truths out there.13

long as the truth is kept from us, so long as we do not have it, we must live in service to a truth provided by someone else, and thus our lives will be lived, not on our own terms, but on the terms of whoever provides that truth—whether that “truth” is true or not.

something inherent in how we know things, in knowledge itself, prevents us from gaining an adequate understanding of the truth

which can be called a worldview, a conceptual framework, or a paradigm—are a pair of glasses you cannot remove.

built entirely upon the sand of clever jokes rather than on the more time-consuming—and admittedly less hilarious—archaeological excavation of a text required to find buried philosophical treasure.

this uncertainty has only strengthened my need to know, to understand, to apply reason to those things which seem to defy it.

invariably we are left to decide for ourselves.