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fandomhigh2019-02-06 02:05 am
jedigrammarians) wrote in fandomhigh2019-02-06 02:05 am
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The Art of Honesty, Tuesday 4th Period
Aphra had the projector back up, because of course she did.
"Okay, kids, time for some real talk about why you need to learn this stuff," she said. "I'm an archaeologist, and by the time I hit double digits the major governing body of my galaxy completed its slow slide into fascist totalitarianism, and between those two things I can tell you this. Truth doesn't exist. No such objective thing. There are facts, sure, and data, but those can be interpreted and spun so many ways, and even if you're trying with the best intention the majority of people don't actually give a hyperspace kriff about them, not if someone's spinning a story they like. And once a story gets traction, then good luck convincing people it's not the truth.
"Thing is, it's not always the big lies that'll catch you. They'll usually get enough people upset enough to argue against those until the heat death of the universe. It's all the little lies that support the big ones that get lost through the cracks, and eventually you'll be so busy patting yourself on the back about spotting the big lie that you don't even notice you're believing a whole lot of small truths that aren't very."
"Anyway, watch the holo, apparently people find them more trustworthy than me."
[Link goes to Folding Ideas video on propganda and Triumph of the Will. Consider that your heads up.]
"Okay, kids, time for some real talk about why you need to learn this stuff," she said. "I'm an archaeologist, and by the time I hit double digits the major governing body of my galaxy completed its slow slide into fascist totalitarianism, and between those two things I can tell you this. Truth doesn't exist. No such objective thing. There are facts, sure, and data, but those can be interpreted and spun so many ways, and even if you're trying with the best intention the majority of people don't actually give a hyperspace kriff about them, not if someone's spinning a story they like. And once a story gets traction, then good luck convincing people it's not the truth.
"Thing is, it's not always the big lies that'll catch you. They'll usually get enough people upset enough to argue against those until the heat death of the universe. It's all the little lies that support the big ones that get lost through the cracks, and eventually you'll be so busy patting yourself on the back about spotting the big lie that you don't even notice you're believing a whole lot of small truths that aren't very."
"Anyway, watch the holo, apparently people find them more trustworthy than me."
[Link goes to Folding Ideas video on propganda and Triumph of the Will. Consider that your heads up.]
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After all, the Zora considered themselves to be the historians of Hyrule, living through centuries of experience to pass down to those whose time was much shorter. How easy would it be, how simple, for them to change the entire pespective of the world? Who would be able to refute them their supposed experiences? What sort of implications would it have?
Depending on when it was that he actually took the throne, he could be the sole person in charge of that sort of thing for hundreds of years, and that could be an awful lot of power. It was definitely giving him some food for thought, some important things to consider.
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