Negligence in truth
Below daily verbal fluency, there is a continuous stream formed by assumptions, prejudices and ideas not explicitly thought. It's hard to detect this current, because it's underground. Unless we stop suddenly and say: “Wait! Let us think about this for a moment!” Well, I think one of the main tasks of thinking is to pull it under the carpet and put it on the table. (Wait! Should all this be highlighted? Why? What for? What about wanting to make everything visible? Is it not beneficial (and inevitable) to sustain life on things that are not analyzed? Do we have to discuss everything? Let there be another side to explore this route; you cannot inspect every corner of the maze at once.)
Imagine the phrase that the evangelist John attributes to Jesus Christ: “The truth will free you.” To start lifting the carpet: Why not unequivocally, “freedom will make you a reality”? Both sentences establish a regular relationship between truth and freedom, but in the opposite sense. The first is a product that wants us to sell/put truth, freedom, the hook that is used to get it. They give us freedom in front of their nose. “Look how nice freedom is!” There is no need to prove that it is desirable, every human being seems to want to be free. As obvious as saying it's good and bad. But is the truth not a bit bad?
Neither truth nor freedom can seduce us. The truth doesn't matter to us and we're already quite free: this smartphone and that car supposedly gave us freedom.
According to the seller, the freedom that will bring us is the one that makes the truth attractive, it does not seem that the truth is truly attractive. How to give a child a bitter pill hidden in a tablespoon of chocolate mousse. Freedom is a delicious chocolate; truth, a hard pill. Since I know you want freedom, come here, I'll tell you what the path to freedom is. I'm sorry, you have to go through the truth or yes. Take the sweet and swallow.
On the contrary, the second statement would imply that the truth is good in itself, certainly something that every human being would wish to achieve. Freedom, on the contrary, would be a return, an obligatory step, as a means or instrument to achieve truth. Well, that has no credibility. Certainly, no one seeks truth with such passion. Neither in the time of Jesus nor in ours.
We also live in the post-truth. The Government can say that it gives priority to public schools and, on the following day (or the same day), to reduce the funds while turning two smiling at the private concerted centres. The Health Advisor can say this as long as it does, without altering the contemplation.
In the world of tinted verbal signs that run like continual confusion, words have no value. Truth and lies are mixed and dissolved in a colorful cocktail. It could be thought that those who listened to Jesus Christ wanted a liberation (either from the oppression of Rome, from the tyranny of meat, or from their understanding). For they did not themselves (they replied that “we have never been slaves of anyone”). In our case, neither truth nor freedom can seduce us. The truth does not matter to us and we are already quite free: this smartphone and that car supposedly gave us the freedom (advertising gives me). Preachers can go to the desert to make sermon. We're going to drive to listen, with the cell phone in our hand, we're not going to pay a lot of attention, oh, what a laugh. Nothing matters. Let everything go.
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