The truth and power, a marriage of centuries
Introduction:
“The root was not black, it was not black what was in that piece of wood, but … something else; Black, like the circle, did not exist ”(Sartre, 1938)
This is an appointment of the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, where in his book "La Náusea" concludes that the existence of the "entities" that surround us and question us, is a merely "illustrative" creation of the human being, built through their senses, for practical purposes, instead of being intrinsic to the universe, as many of us suppose. An idea of this caliber ends up rethinking several mental models and accrual?, What is the black color, a measurable wavelength, or in our daily life really represents something else?, Are the words something substantial, or just a box where we include the concepts?, Do we all perceive reality in the same way, have we lived different experiences, in different cities, with different socio -economic capabilities? And finally, can you say that there is the truth?, If after all, the universe provides us with a messy and incomprehensible whole, that we as small residents of a small planet make our effort to elucidate through our senses the infinite implications that exist.
This last question is what should make us more noise, since today, as always, we firmly take the "truths" to be able to live calmly, with certainties, which somehow give meaning to our existence and the system logical that we build from them. How to explain to the Cherokee (American tribe of the 11th century) that there is no relationship between the dances of rain and the probability that there is a good harvest? Already in itself, the mental model is so deep that it would be necessary to deconstruct until the same belief that the gods can carry out physical acts in the real world. From the same hand you can ask one. Is it really verifiable that there is no relationship between the dance of rain and good harvest? At a certain point if it is, although when we enter the field of what we call our "modern mental model", through the measurement mechanisms we possess, thousands of variants escape that could end up affecting a factor, just because we They are unlikely. Without any intention to discredit the scientific advance, even science itself must be taken as a seasonal truth, the "theory of relativity" is a clear example of this, since before this we ignored the fact that many of the properties of An object depended on the location and speed of the observer.
Truth, myth or reality?:
Thus, passing the years we can say that every time we get a little closer to the "truth". This is, for some sciences, the hardest, decrease the value of uncertainty, variability, standard diversion, but nevertheless we always have a small mistake that takes us away from a hundred percent successful conclusion. And what happens then with the less hard sciences, or with everyday thoughts, or with the daily recipes that contribute to our status quo and never criticize them just because they are part of our most entrenched customs? It is logical to think that dispersion increases the less accurate the science that is analyzed.
At this point the problem of "truth" could be understood then, and it does not exist, at least not in an intrinsic way. But what weight level does this concept have in our lives?
Making a slightly deeper reflection, it can be seen at first glance that the ideas we use when expressing ourselves in our social circles rarely end up accruing hard sciences, but are sociological, economic, sometimes philosophical, political concepts And others, which, as mentioned above, are the ones that have the least "truth" range. The problem arises when discovering that, unless we are researchers, most of our exchange of ideas is full of low level of truth concepts, this means that our most entrenched beliefs will rarely be deeply verifiable. With which, everything that accrues from there rarely will have a livelihood, and here the problem will rarely be rethinking.
In itself, the general issue is found that this phenomenon is not something that happens only at the individual level, but that it develops between us as a society, and it is then that the daily exchange poisoning of superficially rational ideas to which they have a most founded livelihood.
But this is a reality, that is, a phenomenon that occurs at the social level, and that, today, as it has been happening since we form as beings in coexistence, it is repeated over time. And that is when the appropriation of strategies based on this behavior on the part of social actors that seek as the ultimate purpose of the development of power occurs.
Paradigm of belonging:
‘The greatest cruelties of our century have been those impersonal carried out from the remote decision, of the system and the routine, especially when they could be justified as an unfortunate operational need.'(Hobsbawm, 2004)
How do you go from being a German worker who wakes up every morning to feed his family, to commit terrible atrocities against an entire town? Is the satisfaction of contributing to a common good, which, now seen from a general perspective, the future of a simple individual? Since what time is part of a social group, it is perhaps from the moment we find an equal, or since we find whoever opposes ourselves?
We are impossible for us to understand as part of a common collective, if there is no different collective side, opposite to us and our most entrenched beliefs.
This does not mean that identification always solves in atrocities, often is part of revolution, of common ideal, but almost never contains. Being part means stripping of your own thinking, to think as a collective; And the groups are not made to reflect, because the only one who reflects here is the human. If a collective changed continuously, it would cease to be a unit, and it would break in infinite parts, each with its individualism.
This social group core is what we could call the "heart", which gives life to a common idea. So what happens when this idea is parked? Becomes a truth. And the truths are not questioned, but an infinity of understandings and actions are accrued from the same.
Is it possible that systematic hatred towards Jews, blacks, women, all from a common concept come? Are not ideal ways of submission, generate social hatred towards minorities, in order to highlight belonging to majority groups? Does anyone in life for the country, if this is not understood as a service for a common good?
It only remains to be solved a great question, how does the individual become part of a social group?
To solve it, it must be understood that individualism is intrinsic to people from birth, and as it takes place for life, by generating social ties, it is dispersing, since a being one hundred percent individual would be unable to empathize with others, by What would quickly be excluded. The lack of empathy is often related to lack of reflection, how can an individual develop if he ignores a large part of what surrounds him?, the society.
It is then that the human being sacrifices part of his individualism to be able to belong. However, this does not do it consciously, it is simply identified with certain beliefs and truths that you can find in other individuals. In itself, this group identity mechanism can be seen as an exchange, the individual sacrifices part of his belief, his dynamism, his possibility of reflection, and in return he receives company, understanding, own realization, and in some cases a truth overcoming, which only through the group’s own synergy is achieved.
Given the clear mania of hierarchy that has been adopted for centuries within the groups, it is very difficult for synergy to arise unless the common objective of those found on the upper scale of the pyramid is this. In the other cases, it will fall unobjustably in the gross mistake, and the fallacy, in order to emulate a common path with last turbulent objectives and not shared by all those belonging.
conclusion
Throughout the human reasoning, this runs every day with ideas that do not contrast common sense, it is precisely an effort to try to glimpse the range of possibilities that occur behind the routine fabric that invades us. There is no other reason why we will not find ourselves questioning all the founded precepts.
Today, more than ever, we must rethink the concepts, and not let the harmful and poisoned "truths" allow us They do not share our ideals.
Discrimination is a repetitive problem, and given the communications of several leaders from first world countries, it seems not to end soon. Remember that no matter how much they want to convince us otherwise, we are all the same community, and it is the differences that must lead us to reflection and not to hate.
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