WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT HONESTY IS A VIRTUE. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT TO CREATE THE FUTURE, WE MUST FIRST ASCERTAIN THE PRESENT. BUT AT A CERTAIN POINT, TRUTH BECOMES COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, HONESTY BECOMES DETRIMENTAL, AND THE FUTURE BECOMES TOO VISIBLE. WE HAVE LONG BELIEVED THAT TRUTH IS A WAY OUT. FOR A WHILE, THIS BELIEF WAS VALIDATED. FOR CENTURIES, TRU
TH SEEMED TO GENERATE ARMIES, TO MOVE GIANTS, TO DESTROY WORLDS; EVERY TRUTH SEEMED LIKE A REVOLUTION IN ITSELF. BUT EVENTUALLY, TRUTH BEGAN TO SABOTAGE ITSELF: WE MULTIPLIED TRUTH, DECONSTRUCTED IT, AND IN THE PROCESS RID IT OF ITS POLITICAL POTENTIAL; WE HAVE BECOME TOO TRUTHFUL, TO THE POINT THAT OUR TRUTHFULNESS HAS NOW REVEALED THE INHERENT FALSITY OF TRUTH IN ITSELF. TRUTH IS RELATIVE, NOT ABSOLUTE; TRUTH IS PLURAL, NOT SINGULAR; TRUTH IS FICTION, NOT FACT. OUR HONESTY ABOUT TRUTH HAS OPENED OUR MINDS, BUT WE HAVE YET TO ABANDON IT AS AN EXPEDIENT TO REVOLUTION: IF WE ACCEPT THAT NOTHING IS TRUE, WHY DO WE BASE OUR LIVES ON A CONTINUING, FUTILE EFFORT TO IDENTIFY THAT WHICH IS REAL, GENUINE, AUTHENTIC? WE THE DISHONEST OPTIMISTS CALL FOR AN IDEOLOGY OF LIES, A PHILOSOPHY IN WHICH FICTION CONSTITUTES TRUTH. WE CALL FOR AN IDEOLOGY OF DECAY, A SYSTEM OF APPREHENDING THE SOCIAL WORLD THAT REFUSES TO ACCEPT THE PRESENT AS PERMANENT, IMMUNE TO ENTROPY. THIS IS NOT A CALL TO ABANDON THE PRESENT, NOR IS IT A CALL TO IGNORE THAT WHICH WE FIND UNPLEASANT OR IN NEED OF CRITIQUE. IT IS A CALL TO REVERSE THE POLARITY BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION, TO EMBRACE THE POWER OF REPRESENTATION AS A TOOL OF CHANGE. THROUGH DISHONESTY, WE WILL AFFIRM THAT THERE EXIST ALTERNATIVES, THAT NO TRUTH IS EVER CONSTANT.
