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THE GENOCIDE OF TRUTH: Twenty Roots of a Modern Blood Libel
by Daniel Clarke-Serret
Introduction: The Genocide of Truth
Chapter 1: Truth // Chapter 2: Ideology // Chapter 3: Religion // Chapter 4: Science // Chapter 5: Attention // Chapter 6: Distraction // Chapter 7: (True) Expertise // Chapter 8: Authority // Chapter 9: Declaration // Chapter 10: Confusion // Chapter 11: Conversation // Chapters 12 and 13 below.
Chapter 12: Democratisation
Chapter 13: Sophistry
The Descent of Politics
“Words had to change their ordinary meaning”
Book 3, Chapter 82 of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War
The past is not a foreign country. We are living “the past” as we speak. For no work emerges in a vacuum and no inspiration is absent of context. We live in the era of The Great Genocide Blood Libel, the most pernicious abomination of our age. The claim that civilian war dead amounts to extermination. The claim that Israel, with its advanced weaponry and precision technology, is incapable of doing to civilians in two years what any competent military power could do in two days. It’s an affront to common sense; an offensive joke. But it’s an old joke, a tried and tested affront to obviousness that has been with us throughout recorded history. And speaking of history, let’s turn to its founding father: Thucydides.
To reference the famous Greek in his history of the Peloponnesian War, words change their meaning. In his case “reckless audacity” came to be “courage of a loyal ally”, “prudent hesitation” was rebranded as “specious cowardice” and the “ability to see all sides of a question” was deemed “inaptness to act on any”. Oh how little has changed! For it was as true then in the civil war at Corcyra as it is now in the non-existence genocide in Gaza.
