War and peace

The "schizophrenia" of Western civilization, certified by the management and outcomes of the Covid pandemic, proceeds inexorably. And one of the unequivocal symptoms of his progressive cognitive, moral and spiritual decay has to do with the eighth commandment: do not bear false witness. Which, then, is not an exclusive precept of the Judaic tradition, but also of the Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and of any other religious path, exoteric or esoteric, of which there is a trace in human history.

Not telling lies is sometimes advice, sometimes a suggestion, sometimes even, as in the case of the Decalogue, an "order". Perhaps because lying is one of man's pathological ethical deviations. Certainly, because the quantity, quality and level of (as well as the intensity of the habit of) lying represent the very figure of the decadence of a society, as well as of an individual. It is no coincidence that the great poet placed the fraudulent towards those who do not trust in the penultimate circle of Hell and the fraudulent towards those who trust in the last. In both circles, we are dealing with registered liars.

And this is the reason why the words "narration" and "storytelling" are so fashionable today in the world of information (especially the competent and official one). In fact, there would be no reason to "tell" or "narrate" (fole, fairy tales and fables) in a context in which the rule of the media system was to simply "tell" the truth. In any case, let's go back to the bomb, or rather to the "tank".

And that is why today the depravity of serial lying can be said to be a fact not only substantially accomplished, but even formally acquired and officially endorsed by the highest government authorities, as well as by the mainstream that supports and supports them. Take the arms affair in Kiev. The United States sends Zelensky Abrams tanks, Germany Leopard ones, France probably Leclercs.

Well, what do their respective urbi et orbi leaders declare? Olaf Scholz said that "Germany does not become a part of the war in Ukraine with the supply of Leopard tanks". The French foreign minister declared that "neither France nor any of its partners is at war against Russia". All this after, for months, France "and its partners" have done nothing but send war weapons to Ukraine, fueling, with each passing hour, the risk of a nuclear escalation.

These sentences (which echo so much, in their meticulous correspondence to the false, others seraphically pronounced in Italy on the guarantee, for the vaccinated, of being among non-contagious people) are astonishing not so much for the lie they contain as for the "conscience" and the intention of whoever uttered them. They resemble other statements such as those according to which "Ukraine is the bulwark of democracy" or "the Azov battalion is not a Nazi" or "we must fight alongside the attacked" (after having cheerfully attacked, left and right, for years , from North Africa to the Middle East) or “Russia was not provoked by NATO”.

So what is the leap in quality to report? Not so much that the rulers lie and the mainstream circuit acts as their megaphone. Rather, that before they lied knowing they were lying. Today they lie knowing, or rather "believing", that they are not lying. They got so intoxicated with the tendentious and badly cut "stuff" that their paper, cathode and digital tentacles spread in the ether, that they ended up fully embracing the Orwellian equation according to which falsehood is truth. And, it goes without saying, war is peace.

Francis Carraro

www.francescocarraro.com

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/guerra-e-pace/ on Sat, 28 Jan 2023 09:04:42 +0000.