The Bloody Truth

The Bloody Truth

Veritas. Truth.

A classic, and always argued, phrase in a single word. A dual concept of what is and what is not. An opposite falsehood lined with the silver lining of what is truly valuable and the pillar that holds up our dignity as persons.

Always in front of us there is, it seems, a delicate veil that allows us to almost see truth. Yet, hidden at the same time, truth is always teasing us in the demure forms we see. From that which we most desire, and that from which we'll most express to desire, we'll see a truth.

There is an implied duality in truth. There is a limitation to what we know as truth. If something is a truth there is a limitation implied. The limitation is how to define what is not. Truth is, in essence, a two faced creature. The Janus  whose existence we cannot deny.

That is also the key to creating truth, defining limitations. And, that is how a truth can be created, by creating a limitation.

Create something as a limitation, and a truth can be defined.

These days “to define” is the operating mode, the way of making known, what is and not a truth. Pontius Pilate in a Christian narrative comments about truth; whether it was an unchanging law and whether if all truths were the same. His points made were both likely meant as dismissive. The angry mob who in outrage screamed for justice at an offense against truth could not consider any concept of impartial justice. All had to live or die by that truth they'd defined. The push back against what is defined as truth has become one of the histories of conflicts.

Truth can be a truly bloody motive in war.

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A. Mendoza, 2014