No ULTIMATE TRUTH

Today has been very interesting and insightful, the realization of the fact that a human being can not may be never can find out the ultimate truth of any form or field. The history the media the reports the statistics the whole deal with creation and life. The ultimate truth is that we are not lucky enough to know the truth; it’s like the famous line from the movie ‘A Few Good Men’ by Jack Nickolson “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth”

The history, according to me right now, is just collective convenient lies that the human race thought would look good on the paper and sound good when the coming generations read it. This thought reminds me of Girish Karnad’s play Tuglaq in which the king takes the opinion of his intelligent historian Barani as to what his next move should be. This query was to figure out what would look good on the pages when the history was written about him.

The fact that British literature is still a parameter for us to evaluate literature, the fact that most of the countries were either colonized or had colonies around the world has only strengthened this belief in me. All the history written in the Kings courts or any colonized country for the matter of fact could have been destroyed by the colonizer for various reasons and therefore the history rewritten from the colonizer’s point of view. So the real history is lost for eternity for us to study and the present studies are only probably a part of it, a superficial or an outsider’s point of view.

The news, the history in making, is not the complete truth its not news to many of us, but when considered in a long term basis the purpose is lost. The reports include the biases of the reporter to the editor and the stances of the media house to the political interferences. And also the male dominance in every field still prevalent in our society has not spared the field of journalism too. In the end it all becomes like Chinese Whispers, the facts and truth goes through a serious of mutations and modifications made for reasons that don’t even seem reasonable.

I also heard from one of my friends that the Theory of Evolution by Darwin is not accepted or thought in few Christian South American Schools as it contradicts the Bible. Forget the beliefs and the religious conflicts with science the basic conflict is whether or not those children deserve to know the theory because I remember at least a few good consequences of it, one thing being that Charles Darwin’s theory is one of the pillars of our civilization and scientific temperaments. It’s a different thing that these children will some way or the other find out about it but still the way won’t be as effective. My question is why does education has to be selective?

In the end I guess T S Elliot takes me over with two of words that he skillfully put together “tedious arguments”, these are tedious arguments that would never resolve either in us or outside the self. I guess all that matters right now is the knowledge that there is a place called “beyond” we are smaller, minute, nothing we do or say or prove would ever change this huge entity called “truth”.