Whats to Fear?
May 20th 2007 06:12
Many people fear the truth, they hide it by discrediting it in any way they possibly can. It has been going on for so long, particularly from neo-conservatives, that now even when there is something that happens which is not true people just don't believe it. The boy who cried wolf, or the neo-con who cried terrorist.
It's funny, how the inconvenience of truth can hit people so hard. I recall seeing a documentary on the holocaust, then a counter documentary to that showing how many flaws there was in the interviews. An old woman (who was supposedly a holocaust survivor) was smiling and giving an interview like she were fondly remembering some kind of event that happened in the past. She made several glaring errors in what she said, she was quaite possibly flat out lying.
Did the holocaust happen? Yes. Is it an inconvenient truth? Of course. Does this old crock who is lying (and possibly stealing glory from the real heroes) make the holocaust any less real? No, of course not.
This is where reality and fiction become blurred, when people don't want to believe the holocaust happened they point to this survivor and discredit her testimony. While in reality she may be lying she isn't the holocaust.
Everytime someone attempts to discredit something that is definitely happening but sounds inconvenient (for any reason) they don't attempt to discredit what is happening but they discredit events around what is happening. They discredit this one person or discredit that one event, they grasp onto everything they can to try to swing facts their way.
It's funny, how the inconvenience of truth can hit people so hard. I recall seeing a documentary on the holocaust, then a counter documentary to that showing how many flaws there was in the interviews. An old woman (who was supposedly a holocaust survivor) was smiling and giving an interview like she were fondly remembering some kind of event that happened in the past. She made several glaring errors in what she said, she was quaite possibly flat out lying.
Did the holocaust happen? Yes. Is it an inconvenient truth? Of course. Does this old crock who is lying (and possibly stealing glory from the real heroes) make the holocaust any less real? No, of course not.
This is where reality and fiction become blurred, when people don't want to believe the holocaust happened they point to this survivor and discredit her testimony. While in reality she may be lying she isn't the holocaust.
Everytime someone attempts to discredit something that is definitely happening but sounds inconvenient (for any reason) they don't attempt to discredit what is happening but they discredit events around what is happening. They discredit this one person or discredit that one event, they grasp onto everything they can to try to swing facts their way.
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