It’s difficult to take Democracy seriously until we have an understanding of Truth and Reconciliation. In this transformative era, how is our understanding of history continually undermined, forged and faked by manufactured information regimes built upon a political and economic agenda peddling untruth as if it were law and scripture.
The “relativity” of truth, the heterogeneity of narrative, and the overdetermination of the subject’s position, has created a free-for-all privileging Rights over Responsibilities. Some facts we really do know to be self evident. Climate Change is one of them. But there are so many others that hide in the contours along the shadows of our human reason as if we had never gone through the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment. Justifications for hegemony permeate our basic understanding of our national narrative and is woefully misguided by misinformation.
The U.S. national narrative must reconcile our history of genocide, slavery, systemic theft, fraud, dispossession and exclusion that has imposed itself onto our global financial system with the full force of military occupations, regime change and destabilization. Until we have an understanding of these facts, and pursue a system of repairing this history, we have no choice but to suspend any notion that we live in a democracy, or that our democracy is anything more than the bully power of armed thuggery. A democracy of uninformed citizenry upholding fake narratives is simply enforced schizophrenia.
We have to change the national narrative. The first step are committees on Truth and Reconciliation. The second step is Reparations.