You must be asking yourself how can the truth not prevail? It is simple, there is no single truth, I mean there is no absolute truth, we all think that what we fight for is a just cause but so does our enemies, so does the man on the other side who lifted a gun against you for the sake of his children. To us they are monsters and to them we are the real monster, who has the truth? The answer is none.
The truth is just a convenience that the government uses to wage war, truth meaning just cause. Due to this Brian became a victim of the system he sought to defend with ought seeing their real motifs behind it all.
The grim reality of it all is that this happens on our daily basis, what happened in the 60's today we call is Iraq and Afghanistan, the communist we so feared back then we replaced with terrorist. The fear of back then still exist to this day, the truth we sought is nothing but the figment of a good lie told to both sides. In that sense the show teaches us that the first causality in a war is the truth, (possible quote here that i don't remember) in the end we see many men like Brain when all is lost...
history of war: http://www.historyofwar.org/
I found interesting when you said that there is no single truth, because there really isn't. Everyone has a motive to do what they are doing, whether they are conscious of it or not. There is no telling who is right and who is wrong, except when someone exceeds what is considered to be a good behavior or of good morality, when someone dehumanizes another person they are instantly considered the enemy, that is what I think the only exception is, when they know that what they are doing is bad and they still keep doing it because they enjoy it.
ResponderBorrarI found interesting when you said that there is no single truth, because there really isn't. Everyone has a motive to do what they are doing, whether they are conscious of it or not. There is no telling who is right and who is wrong, except when someone exceeds what is considered to be a good behavior or of good morality, when someone dehumanizes another person they are instantly considered the enemy, that is what I think the only exception is, when they know that what they are doing is bad and they still keep doing it because they enjoy it.
ResponderBorrarI agree. Truth is a valuable gift that we have let wear away into dust. If there is real truth, then how do we guide ourselves?
ResponderBorrarI remember as a little kid (like 7+ years old) that when I played to be soldier with other kids, I argued sometimes with them about how there was no good or bad soldier, that each soldier (no matter his side) thought he was fighting for a good cause. I remember telling that to other kids and convincing them to be the German soldiers while I was the American one.
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