{"id":23983,"date":"2021-01-10T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/?p=23983"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T12:01:25","slug":"the-privilege-of-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/the-privilege-of-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The privilege of the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text: Eduardo Jord\u00e1.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Many people believe there was golden era in history when the truth was scrupulously respected and journalists were selfl ess fighters in search for the facts. However, in this age, the truth doesn\u2019t exist and there couldn\u2019t be less respect for reality.<\/p>\n

We would be living- or, we are living, if we prefer to express it this way- in the era of \u201cfake news\u201d and informative intoxication, whereas before, a \u201cbefore\u201d which can\u2019t ever be pinned on a concise time of history, something like a Kingdom of Unquestionable Truth existed.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s think back to the time of \u201cWatergate\u201d for example. Or going back a little further, let\u2019s think back to the glorious age of \u201cJ\u2019accuse..!\u201d of Zola, at the end of the 19th century, in midst of the Dreyfus affair, when free journalism which denounced abuse and privilege would point society in the right direction.<\/p>\n

If we think about it, the era of the \u201cWatergate scandal\u201d, in 1974, was a time where reality or the respect to the truth was under as much menace as it is now. Let\u2019s not forget that it was the time of the Cold War and the Vietnam War, where facts were completely distorted when subject to the prevailing narratives which divided the world into two irreconcilable sides: the good and the bad, the right and the left (on the other hand, exactly like now)<\/p>\n

The only difference is that now these groups are divided on social media and the chaos has become a lot louder and more menacing because it all happens simultaneously and invades us at all times, which we have mobile phones to thank for, and this amplifi es the daunting strength of menaces and lies to the absolute extreme.<\/p>\n

And what\u2019s even worse, because this truly is a new reality, are the neo-marxist ideological theories associated to \u201cintersectionality\u201d, reigning in the majority of universities, which question the intellectual legacy of the West due to its contamination on topics like patriarchies, racism and colonialism, in such a way that many intellectual guru\u2019s consider the idea of truth itself a suspicious concept which hides a privilege which should be abolished. Now, this truly is the great danger which we are facing: Questioning the idea of truth itself. Because if nothing is true, where is the value of looking for it and defi ning it? And, what would be the sense of defi ning what is true and what is false? That\u2019s where we are at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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