MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?

"What you are seeing... is not what´s happening."

George Orwell


So... where is the truth lying? 


In history!


There´s where we will find the footprints that will allow us to understand what the present is all about and how it came to be; as well as a guideline of what the future may "eventually" be. But make no mistake: history, as we generally know it, is a construct of the winners and as such, it is usually biased. So, this means that the future can only be what the winners may wish to impose upon us.


At the end, induced pragmatism is what keeps telling us that reality, not truth, is what prevails as the winner's imposition. And... who can argue that reality is not a reflection of truth or the "truth" that we are supposed to accept as a living fact? It´s all about manipulation and "social engineering". The orwellian drama at its best.


We have learnt to hide truth behind our acceptance of "what is... just is", even if that "is" has been constructed on top of a pile of lies or desinfirmation or institutionalized relativism. We have ended up accepting that reality - even distorted reality - and truth are one and the same. No questioning is allowed. 


We have become the Goebbelian ideal...!!


Our responsibility as history makers and historians -  and as social and intellegent beens -  is to seriously and responsibly unfold the "truth" or to dig as much as posible what there is of truth in the underlying rethoric of any official discourse... not withstanding what the outcome can be. We can not accept the goebbelian imposition of "if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it". 


Truth, historical truth, should and must prevail.


And that, my friends, is the dilema - or the "mission impossible?" - of our times!




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