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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Truth Never Prevails: In Philosophy & Politics, Truth is Irrelevant

The idea that “truth always prevails” is widely accepted as the universal truth. But history tells us that truth is irrelevant as far as politics and philosophy are concerned.  

Throughout history, we can’t find a single instance of a side fighting for the “ultimate truth” going on to win the political battle or the philosophical argument. Again and again in history we find that political and intellectual supremacy is attained by the groups which are able to brainwash a significantly large number of people with their lies and mythologies. Humans are easily brainwashed because we lack the mental, psychological and sensory tools to identify and understand the ultimate truth. How can we fight for the truth, when we don’t have the ability to discover the truth? 

Every political movement, every philosophical system of the past, and the present, has been driven by lies, mythologies and false propaganda. The same will hold true in the foreseeable future. Civilization is not the outcome of our ability to reason or our wisdom—it is the outcome of our ability to create a web of lies, mythologies and false propaganda, and strongly and passionately believe in them.

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