The problem is that many people consider themselves as honest and sincere even as they recite the propaganda that they have been brainwashed with. When you swallow something hook like and sinker you consider yourself a defender of the truth, even though you are spewing lies. The people who are lying can be affected by truthspeak. The peo…
The problem is that many people consider themselves as honest and sincere even as they recite the propaganda that they have been brainwashed with. When you swallow something hook like and sinker you consider yourself a defender of the truth, even though you are spewing lies. The people who are lying can be affected by truthspeak. The people who believe THEY are truth speaking will only be inflamed by your ardor. Such has been my experience, anyway.
My point about this is that "truth-speech" is not centered around political or legal facts of which most of us are only dimly aware. It is focused around personal facts. Practicing it results in improved communication (affinity) between the people who are doing it. You are not going to get truth-speech regarding lots of issues of politics or law. You are going to get propaganda, or academic research results or something like that. Though it is possible that a person can have very sincere feelings about a truth that is also reflected in academic research, his speech, if it is of this kind, would emphasize his personal confidence in the truth, and not the academic work.
Dr. Desmet is not trying here to solve the problem of what is closest to the Truth. He is only trying to solve the problem of how to get people to connect with each other and feel less isolated.
I know what you are talking about. From my point of view, a LOT of people have swallowed a LOT of propaganda "hook line and sinker." They DO get inflamed by my "ardor." But when I write comments on the internet, I am not trying to solve the problem of dissociation. I am only trying to get more people to look at things they don't normally look at or don't normally accept. Of course, I can always hope that what I say will also "resonate." But the problem of the dissociated individual is a very big problem. I know people who are suffering rather severely in this regard who do not respond well to simple sincerity. As Desmet says, this is a psychological problem. Some people are more deeply stuck in delusion than others.
The problem is that many people consider themselves as honest and sincere even as they recite the propaganda that they have been brainwashed with. When you swallow something hook like and sinker you consider yourself a defender of the truth, even though you are spewing lies. The people who are lying can be affected by truthspeak. The people who believe THEY are truth speaking will only be inflamed by your ardor. Such has been my experience, anyway.
My point about this is that "truth-speech" is not centered around political or legal facts of which most of us are only dimly aware. It is focused around personal facts. Practicing it results in improved communication (affinity) between the people who are doing it. You are not going to get truth-speech regarding lots of issues of politics or law. You are going to get propaganda, or academic research results or something like that. Though it is possible that a person can have very sincere feelings about a truth that is also reflected in academic research, his speech, if it is of this kind, would emphasize his personal confidence in the truth, and not the academic work.
Dr. Desmet is not trying here to solve the problem of what is closest to the Truth. He is only trying to solve the problem of how to get people to connect with each other and feel less isolated.
I know what you are talking about. From my point of view, a LOT of people have swallowed a LOT of propaganda "hook line and sinker." They DO get inflamed by my "ardor." But when I write comments on the internet, I am not trying to solve the problem of dissociation. I am only trying to get more people to look at things they don't normally look at or don't normally accept. Of course, I can always hope that what I say will also "resonate." But the problem of the dissociated individual is a very big problem. I know people who are suffering rather severely in this regard who do not respond well to simple sincerity. As Desmet says, this is a psychological problem. Some people are more deeply stuck in delusion than others.