One philosopher claimed that you can say anything, as long as you don't harm; another said that the greatest system is that one that rewards the goods of the private. There is no better system. But alas, we came to be in the era where people claim there is nothing like that thing with the capital letter T, Truth. What is the truth in the first place? This claim to some metaphysical structure that those built with no power over say of that structure now claims to break it down. In the first place, how do you break something you did not build, and in the second place, how do you break down something you do not even know?

So the question remains, what is this elusive truth everyone is talking about in this so-called metaphysical structure of post-truth? No one knows, because it never existed in the first place. Some among us called the death of God the greatest tragedy ever, but do we even know who this God was that was killed? Can we even claim to be in an era of post-truth if we were never in the era of truth? Not even to talk about the truth with a capital letter t, Truth, oh the blasphemy.

So now we stand in the misty planes of the structure that once stood here. We are in the era of post-truth. But this post-truth era is a structure, a child, an abortion, of its own creation: we created post-truth only to reconcile the fact that we were never with truth, truth never showed her face to us. We were under the false illusion that we had truth, no the illusion never existed: we lied. We never had truth. Truth was the structure that the mighty built to justify the cruel slaughtering of the different, truth was the justification to kill the Truth, with capital T.

Yes, you see, trying to justify the truth is like killing the only thing that can solve this mystery. Trying to justify it only killed the thing you wanted to show. Now that we are standing in the midst of post-truth we realized this falsehood we believed in for so long. We believed that we were on the brink of discovering it all: Truth with that capital T. But we only discovered a mirror, not reflecting our own face, but that of the shattered hope in finding anything at all.

Yes, by looking for truth, we killed it. It was not God that we killed, but truth itself. This is because once you look at truth, you will not find it, you will only find yourself standing in the shadow of the metaphysical structure you built with your lies. No, there is nothing like the post-truth era, because we don't know what that means. Proclaiming from the rooftops that we found the post-truth era with enthusiasm only shows the stupidity in your own words. The truth will never be found, because it does not exist. Truth, oh Truth with the capital T, cannot be found because we are not in the position to look at it, it only looks at us with its pittyless smile. We cannot know this post-truth, we cannot destroy truth, because how can we destroy that what we do not know?

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