From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Mon, 4 Jul 2005 04:16:57 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [cicdd] Shalom Aki (was Pocket guru and dogs in bed) |
Dear George,-------------------
Thank you for your kind and detailed reply.
I shall answer in more detail in the near future.
Right now I have 2 comments.
1. EVERYTING I write is ALWAYS in the sense of IMO.
Must I put IMO before every sentence ?
2. Re my proposal to read the PARIS MAY 1968 eyewitness report
of the British Doctor I recommendted you wrote:
" I lived through the whole caboodle and in no way need British
Doctors or Chinese Contortionists to tell me what I saw. "
OK.
Please Consider the following case (which actually happened last
year) :
THREE TV teams came to the Gaza strip to make a documentary
film about life in Gaza, the Israeli occupation, the HAMAS, JIHAD,
etc. The teams are :
1.from Al-Jazeera,
2. from the BBC,
3. from Israel State TV Channel 1.
All three directors do not use actors or tell people what to say or do.
The cameras and the Directors are merely recording facts.
Yet despite the recording of actual facts - without any staging or
directing - the three teams produce three very different films.
Al-Jazeera will produced a pro-Palestinian film. Israeli TV produced
a pro-Israeli film, and the BBC produced a "balanced" film
distributing blame equally between Israelis and Palestinians.
Who lied ?
Which film is "The TRUTH" ?
Which film distorts "The Truth" ?
My answer is - ALL THREE FILMS TOLD TRUTHS, each film
presented ITS OWN TRUTH. Because "The Truth" is not the
Reality but an INTERPRETATION OF REALITY.
Most people - and thinkers - do not distinguish between Reality and
an Interpretation of Reality.
The directors did not distort Reality, they interpreted it - each in his
own way.
The camera does not lie but it does not decide in which direction to
point, what to record, how long the shot is - and from what angle.
All these decisions are made by the Director. Moreover, in the
editing room the Director decides which shots will go into the film
and in what order. All this is an act of INTERPRETING REALITY,
not of recording The Truth.
BTW, the same is true about about every individaul human being.
Our mentality INTERPRETS sensory data, censors most of it, and
edits the rest. Hence the ussual situation where 2 people watch the
same scene but give 2 different versions of it.
Of course there are lies - like preesenting something that did not
happen, staging a scene, ommitting something essential to the
situation, etc. etc. But even AFTER we delete all these obvious lies
and stick to genuine recording of facts we face the problem I
mentioned above, namely - that there is not, nor can there ever be, an
Absolute, Final, one and only, TRUTH. Because Truth is not Reality
but an interpretation of Reality, and every interpretation depends on
an interpreter.
The fact that you lived in Paris during the events of May 1968 does
not mean that your interpretation is "better", "more accurate" or
"truer", than the one in the PARIS MAY 1968 document I
recommended. Of course, that document is not The Truth either. It
is an interpretation of the events that differs from your interpretation.
I am not saying or implying that it is BETTER than yours. I only say
it is DIFFERENT.
People can benefeit by reading different interpretations and then
form their own interpretation.
Every interpretation depends on an interpreter. If people know the
mentality of the interpreter they can get a better view of his/her
interpretation and of what was interperted,
Therefore I think everybody - including yourself - will only benefeit
from reading PARIS MAY 1968 even if they disagree with this
interpretation.
Of course all this is IMO,
Aki ORR