For there exist independent journalists, citizen photographers, victims equipped with mobile phones, who slip onto these networks despite surveillance and publish “a truth” that displeases our political figure. Quickly, let us create another truth to spread widely, let us manufacture countless articles sent everywhere to proclaim “the” truth and gradually smother “their” truth. And so on! Tell me, Mr. Larousse, haven’t you by any chance forgotten to define a word between véritableand verjus, because here, clearly, everyone has their own truth.
Just as truth is the state of what is true, freedom is the state of what is free. But again, meaning and counter‑meaning collide. In the country where Bartholdi’s Liberty Enlightening the World stands, some leaders believe that in Europe, our rules of life, commerce and the circulation of opinions hinder freedom. And they reproach us for it. But without rules, some lose their freedom, according to the famous example of the free wolf in the field of free sheep. Free to be devoured. To avoid carnage, either a superior force restricts the wolf’s freedom, or it protects the sheep by limiting theirs. Depending on whether one is more sheep or more wolf, the word freedom changes meaning. Note that the leaders mentioned above are generally on the wolf side.
With the word aggressiveness, the state of what is aggressive, meaning and counter‑meaning also intertwine, according to the well‑known schoolyard formula: “whoever says it is the one who is.” Here is the head of state who threatens with “his” bomb, sends drones and rockets flying in all directions, relentlessly pushes thousands of men toward the neighboring country, sabotages computers in successive waves, and then complains, with a contrite and furious expression at once (he is an expert in this kind of grimace), that “they” only think of attacking and invading the country he cherishes with love.
“Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other,” wrote Blaise Pascal in the mid‑17th century, in a Pensée titled The Economy of the World, where he doubts that a universal law is possible…
It’s enough to make you lose your Latin!
Michel Seyrat
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