Alexandre Koyre, On the political lie [1943] , Torino, Lindau, 2010
He never lied to as today. Neither has ever lied so brazen, systematic and continuous . So goes the world, that is, it was in 1943. Beautiful little book mostly between Galileo and Descartes, the political lie by Russian-French philosopher. What immediately pushed the lie that is constitutive of politics, moreover, of the human species. And indeed a man, even before Koyré, recalled that "a Prince ought to be very careful that nothing's ever come out of his mouth which is not [...] pairs, to hear and see, everything Piat, good faith, all integrity, all humanity, all religion. " But Koyré dedicated, thinking of Nazism, the deep anthropological introduced by totalitarian regimes, which led to the extreme presence and role of the lie, so man is surrounded by totalitarian in lies, falsehood breathes, is subjected to the lie every moment of his life . A mass of lies, which can use the mainstream media, and as such serial, vulgar lie in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Lie with a total disregard Finance for verisimilitude, and the same intelligence of those to whom it is addressed. But then, so far, we would not have anything particularly interesting. There is a passage, however, that will have some development: It is the truth to someone who is estimated to their peers and their superiors. Conversely, the rejection of truth implies a lack of esteem, respect. And besides, lying is instrument of war. It is aimed at the enemy is the tool of the defender. The instrument of the weak surrounded. We make one plus one. Totalitarianism is the world of lies, lies tool dell'accerchiato; totalitarianism is haunted by psychology right persecuted from dell'accerchiamento paranoia, persecution and treacherous enemy within. So the lie is the tool that opposes us al'altro. But the other does not have the right to the truth. And who is us, and others who . Because the other can be even those of us not fully begun, and it is not called the truth, but the loyalty and enthusiasm. But it's so far from democracy to totalitarianism? So far, this, when it acts on the masses, it takes confidence, when the group remains faithful to the main virtue of its members ? When you create the distinction between an aristocracy which has the right to truth, and a mass intended to lie, unworthy to participate in the elite because credulous? A sort of mystical contact is established in the beginning - or for those who believe to be - between himself and the head . The last pages are heartbreaking: a vortex here is drowning, and you really do not understand most of what time, what the world is talking. It is only the sardana of lies, shameless and proud of his triumph: when you lie, useless to try to avoid the contradiction: the mass will not see them either, no point in having a heart coherence: the mass has no memory, hiding unnecessary the truth: it is fundamentally unable to implement it; useless even hide that you are deceiving: the masses will never understand that this is it, that is the treatment to which he submits. As Trotsky said, has to step 'a Nutt.
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