In my last publication I talked about nature, the natural physical order, and the natural will, which is expressed through translation and alteration, I also focused precisely on making it clear that I was only talking about physics, and nothing else.
Today I will speak about the maximum force that nature has to express its will, and if in the past this will was expressed through continuous movement and constant change, this time is expressed precisely through immobility and through the static and eternal permanence of what we call truth.
Truth is a quality, an idea, it is nothing that exists physically, however, like all other qualities, it manifests itself in all physical things in a kind of omnipresence; In spite of the fact that nothing physical is the "truth", everything that really exists is "true", therefore, the "truth" is always there waiting to be discovered.
Its counterpart, which is not the lie, but the falsehood, is on the contrary a human construct. If truth and true things are precisely the things as they are, and nothing else, falsehood represents the human will to ignore, to see things as they are not.
And as we all know, the human will, however strong man may be, can never overcome the will of nature. A falsehood, no matter how deceptive or elaborate it is, no matter how seemingly obvious to common sense it is, it will die, because if the falsehood is created by men, when there are no men willing to defend it, it will simply cease to exist.
A lie, like a falsehood, constantly needs men exercising their will to maintain it. The truth, on the contrary, is always there, it does not need anyone to defend it to make itself present, and sooner or later, it will overlap.
This reminds me of Max Planck's maxim: "Truth never triumphs, its opponents just die out".
His opponents? But who are his opponents? Does anyone dare to oppose the truth?
Just as evil is always done in the name of good, because there is no one who in his own opinion is evil; and just as injustice is always done in the name of justice, because there is no one who in his own opinion is unjust; those who oppose the truth don't believe, in their opinion, to be opposed to it, but as we intuited here, the opinion is the problem. And I say it literally.
If the truth is precisely the things as they are, and the falsehood the things as they are not. Opinion is things as they seem to us; either because we believe that they are so because we are ignorant, this when we are rational; or because we want it to be that way despite knowing that it is not like that, this when we are emotional.
But since we are not omniscient to know the truth, all men have opinions.
Opinion is subjective truth, that is, that which is true only with respect to the one who thinks it. Nobody holds opinions that he consciously knows are wrong. Even those who say that truth does not exist, contradictorily believe that their opinion is true. Therefore, for each individual in the world, their opinion is a series of ideas that are closest to the truth, knowing, of course, that opinions are always opinions and nothing more, some more true than others, some totally false, however, always opinions and never "truths".
Opinions are never objective truth.
The opponents of the truth are created when people become loyal to this subjective truth, be their opinions or the opinions of others, then, the objective truth, that prevails in the facts and not in the imagination, is forgotten.
And the problem with such people who are loyal to opinions, is that sooner or later they end up resorting to lies, sophisms, fallacies, and finally, to the total abandonment of reason. Why? Because they are afraid of the truth. They fear that their opinion is false and the world of cardboard they have built around them collapses. And unfortunately for them, the will of nature always overcomes, and those who honor the opinion and not the truth can only fail.
If you want to know when it is sought to get the truth and when there is only desire to maintain opinions, you should only look at the conversations. Those who seek the truth do so through dialectic, and when they converse with others they dialogue. Those who seek to maintain their opinion do so through imposition, and when they talk with others they discuss.
When there is no discussion but dialogue, then the personalism is over, is not you against me, but both for the truth, and if in the first case your opinion was enemy of mine, in the second opinions don't matter, because the truth is not at odds with you or with me, not with our opinions, but with falsehood.
Of course, at small scales we don't see clearly the distortion created by the denial of the truth, ordinary people create small problems. But when influential people refuse to accept the truth and begin to defend only their opinions, the results are catastrophic. Fanaticism, extremism and radicalism are always the result.
Those who are loyal, not to the truth, but their truth, tell lies to achieve their goals, as if deceiving people deceived the universe and changed the facts; they rewrite history, as if modifying the words on a paper will effectively change the history, and the infinite traces left by yesterday, not in the pages but in reality, and which are unchangeable; they censor books and hide information, as if the sun could be covered with the finger, as if by ignoring the truth this would cease to exist; and finally, they believe that indoctrination produces knowledge, but what can we expect from men who feel such contempt for the truth, since they well know that falsehood, unlike truth, must be imposed.
The greatest of failures can only be the best results to which someone who leaves the truth along the way can aspire. But as we already learned, failure does not worry them, because the truth is of little importance to them, sooner or later they will manage to pretend not to have done it, because as we know they don't care about the facts, but only the opinion that have of these.
Unfortunately, although there are some political sectors that archetypally represent this behavior, the reality is that we all are sometimes like that, and we stop seeing things as they are, to begin to see things as we want them to be, or as we would like, or as we think they should be.
The only thing that we can say then, is that, as much on their opinions as on ours, and above all the falsehood, the truth will always triumph.
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