{"id":1475,"date":"2009-05-26T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/26\/the-partial-truth-and-nothing-but-the-partial-truth\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T13:32:53","slug":"the-partial-truth-and-nothing-but-the-partial-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-partial-truth-and-nothing-but-the-partial-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"the partial truth and nothing but the partial truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When one is contending with an ideological regime, the line that must be held absolutely to the end is to reject, without discussion, the description of reality set forth by this regime.\u00a0 As soon as one puts one’s fingers in the gears and admits this description includes a “partial truth”–for example, that there are Aryans and non-Aryans, and that a “Jewish problem” therefore exists–one is lost.\u00a0 The will now obeys only a distorted intelligence.\u00a0 It remains only to beg the “Aryans” to resolve this “problem” in a “humane” manner.\u00a0 In the world of ideology, the “partial truth” that holds seductive power is the very site of falsification and what is most false.\u00a0 This rule holds true for all ideology, and particularly for communist ideology.\u00a0 As soon as people accepted a description that divided reality between socialism and capitalism, they could only beg the two “camps” to obey the general principles of morality–even if this meant granting superiority, in principle, to the first for its having done away with “exploitation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The No<\/em>, the refusal to discuss, must be set forth from the first moment.\u00a0 If it is not, one loses one’s sense of the false logic that occurs with the second step, which is introduced by therefore<\/em>.\u00a0 The Treaty of Versailles humiliated Germany: therefore<\/em> it is necessary to take a certain measure in order to solve the Jewish problem, therefore<\/em>. . . .Until, by an imperceptible drift, one arrives at the Final Solution.\u00a0 Workers are exploited: therefore<\/em> there must be a revolution, therefore<\/em>. . .etc.\u00a0 We must flee the “partial truth,” because this truth, however indisputable in appearance, is already embedded in a system of insane logic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Alain Besancon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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