Everything we hear is not true. We know that, that is why we have to get used to the uncertainty that this is about, we are aware that behind kind words sometimes dark interests or perceptual manipulations are hidden, on the other hand, we also know that it is not good to confuse the truth with the opinion of the majority.
Classical philosophers like Plato and Aristotle defined truth as what corresponds to reality, now the real problem is that truth is like a crystal with many faces that can be analyzed from different perspectives, my truth will not be the same as yours, because I see the world through my personal experience, my emotions and my tendencies.
- Everything we hear is not true.
- But it is said that the truth always triumphs on its own because the lie needs many accomplices.
How many times do we hear that expression that says: The wolf will always be cruel if we only listen to Little Red Riding Hood? And while it is true that it is not good to have an opinion listening to a single voice, sometimes only one person has a genuine truth in himself. Therefore, it is necessary to intuitively know and discern the mere noise of noble frankness.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a very successful young Nigerian writer thanks to books such as “Half Yellow Sun”. In many of his lectures, he usually talks about an interesting concept he called “the danger of unique stories. “
Adichie comments on how agonizing it is to have to deal with certain minority discourses capable of influencing the great masses in ways they don’t even know about. In your case, you must correct every day those who think that Nigeria is just a land of lions and giraffes inhabited by primitive and savage peoples.
Perhaps only the little red chaperone can reveal to us the evil intentions of the wolf, perhaps he will raise his voice over others, but as is often the case in our society, truth always tends to be at the heart of the minority. In turn, defended by the great masses, it is easier to assume, because “it makes us ordinary people”.
Solomon Asch was a renowned psychologist who through his social experiences showed that we let ourselves be influenced by the opinion of the majority even if it is wrong and that we do so simply out of formism.
Behind this common behavior in many of our social contexts lies in fact an ancestral instinct of the human being, which would serve us not to be excluded or marginalized from the “great mass”. For our ancestors, feeling isolated sometimes meant “non-survival. “
We are sure that after reading these explanations, you will think that the problem of everything is in the weight of large social groups (politicians, media, large hidden organizations?), those that make us take certain ideas for granted when in fact they are not.
Now, psychologists Tajfel, Billing, Bundy and Flament (1971) have defined what is called a minimal group to explain how often our family, friendship or work convey their preferences, ideas and stereotypes to us so subtly that we integrate them. almost without realizing it.
To think that the solution to our problems, as well as the truth of all things, is in us is certainly a little complicated to recognize, our mind is full of prejudices, fears and limiting attitudes, mixed in turn with the external noise that modernity brings us.
The truth is intended only for the brave, for those who listen, for those who dare to ask and for those who, with a noble heart, wish to know the sensitivity of this world.