TruthSeeker is right. It is a newspeak perversion of language. 100%. It is normally found in close proximity to diversity, tolerance and equality as espoused by the "influencers". If everyone has their own truth then there is no truth that is known. It is so narcissistic sounding that the speaker should be taking a selfie whilst engaging in it's use.
I am not ripping on this girl (as I have not even watched the vid yet) but on this Orwellian Newspeak attempt at altering thought through language.
this Orwellian Newspeak attempt at altering thought through language
It's nearly impossible to believe that's what you think she was doing.
Maybe watch the vid before you rant about it like this. Try to see the overarching, soul-wrenching message of it instead of obsessing about the pronoun MY vs. the article THE, for fuck's sake.
Maybe I will post after watching the vid to discuss it.
I think when I have said that I have actually not watched the vid and included a disclaimer that I was not talking about her that I did not think about her at all.
"Maybe watch the vid before you rant about it like this" - I was ranting about "My truth" not the vid.
"She just means the truth as she herself experienced it first hand, not that there are multiple versions of the truth." - Truth that she experienced first hand is her experience plain and simple, not "her truth".
I am sure I will be outraged by the vid when I watch it and I hate the royals. Maybe you find my point trivial after watching it but I don't care.
It's my point and I agree whole wholeheartedly with Truthseeker whose name checks out.
I would agree with your comment. I do not believe she was trying to say there are multiple versions of the truth, but typically when someone says MY TRUTH it is coming from a snowflake or someone who truly believes that there is MY TRUTH and that is all that matters. Regardless of weather it is actually true or not. Which is why I have grown to hate the term.
"but typically when someone says MY TRUTH it is coming from a snowflake or someone who truly believes that there is MY TRUTH and that is all that matters."
She says my truth as truth is a matter of perception. Your truth of watching and reporting on an incidence would be different from my truth....filters....
Observe this powerful mind fuckery at work. (Not you yourself but the effect that this distortion of language has had upon you.) This is a prototypical example - "truth is a matter of perception". The truth is not someone's reporting, their reporting would be better described as their story or account. The truth is not nearly so pedestrian. The truth would be what that person should strive for in recounting their story.
It is not theirs to possess or mold into "their narrative". Their account or story certainly is but truth's meaning as a word has been successfully perverted.
To be honest, in this day and age of ubiquitous bullshit, the truth is sacred.
"My Truth" is straight up, Orwellian, fucky language and it is doing it's job when people are defending it.
It is impossible for people to witness the same event and the truth to be the same in every particular no matter how truthful they strive to be. It really is a matter of what filters you have and you are trying to deny they exist . Why?
..and again this is a perfect illustration. The word just has a different meaning to you than the classic meaning.
The truth, in your example, would be better illustrated by a video of the event which the two are recounting.(Do I really have to spell this out?) So if their accounts are both incorrect in certain details, would not the account provided by the camera be true and correct. The truth.
If they are incorrect or have inconsistencies how can their accounts be the truth? They are accidentally incorrect, and so, in some details, not telling the truth. In court, when they say to tell the truth, what do you think they mean?
Cambridge Dictionary:- "the real facts about a situation, event, or person" "the quality of being true" - this is pretty self explanatory.
The definition does not contain "real fact about a situation, event or person including incorrectly remembered facts, innuendo and scuttlebutt."
Praise God for this woman speaking out against the royal family, but I hate the term "My Truth". There is only THE truth.
She just means the truth as she herself experienced it first hand, not that there are multiple versions of the truth.
RANT ON:-
TruthSeeker is right. It is a newspeak perversion of language. 100%. It is normally found in close proximity to diversity, tolerance and equality as espoused by the "influencers". If everyone has their own truth then there is no truth that is known. It is so narcissistic sounding that the speaker should be taking a selfie whilst engaging in it's use.
I am not ripping on this girl (as I have not even watched the vid yet) but on this Orwellian Newspeak attempt at altering thought through language.
It's nearly impossible to believe that's what you think she was doing.
Maybe watch the vid before you rant about it like this. Try to see the overarching, soul-wrenching message of it instead of obsessing about the pronoun MY vs. the article THE, for fuck's sake.
Maybe I will post after watching the vid to discuss it.
I think when I have said that I have actually not watched the vid and included a disclaimer that I was not talking about her that I did not think about her at all.
"Maybe watch the vid before you rant about it like this" - I was ranting about "My truth" not the vid.
"She just means the truth as she herself experienced it first hand, not that there are multiple versions of the truth." - Truth that she experienced first hand is her experience plain and simple, not "her truth".
I am sure I will be outraged by the vid when I watch it and I hate the royals. Maybe you find my point trivial after watching it but I don't care.
It's my point and I agree whole wholeheartedly with Truthseeker whose name checks out.
I would agree with your comment. I do not believe she was trying to say there are multiple versions of the truth, but typically when someone says MY TRUTH it is coming from a snowflake or someone who truly believes that there is MY TRUTH and that is all that matters. Regardless of weather it is actually true or not. Which is why I have grown to hate the term.
"but typically when someone says MY TRUTH it is coming from a snowflake or someone who truly believes that there is MY TRUTH and that is all that matters."
You have been paying attention.
She says my truth as truth is a matter of perception. Your truth of watching and reporting on an incidence would be different from my truth....filters....
Observe this powerful mind fuckery at work. (Not you yourself but the effect that this distortion of language has had upon you.) This is a prototypical example - "truth is a matter of perception". The truth is not someone's reporting, their reporting would be better described as their story or account. The truth is not nearly so pedestrian. The truth would be what that person should strive for in recounting their story.
It is not theirs to possess or mold into "their narrative". Their account or story certainly is but truth's meaning as a word has been successfully perverted.
To be honest, in this day and age of ubiquitous bullshit, the truth is sacred. "My Truth" is straight up, Orwellian, fucky language and it is doing it's job when people are defending it.
It is impossible for people to witness the same event and the truth to be the same in every particular no matter how truthful they strive to be. It really is a matter of what filters you have and you are trying to deny they exist . Why?
..and again this is a perfect illustration. The word just has a different meaning to you than the classic meaning.
The truth, in your example, would be better illustrated by a video of the event which the two are recounting.(Do I really have to spell this out?) So if their accounts are both incorrect in certain details, would not the account provided by the camera be true and correct. The truth.
If they are incorrect or have inconsistencies how can their accounts be the truth? They are accidentally incorrect, and so, in some details, not telling the truth. In court, when they say to tell the truth, what do you think they mean?
Cambridge Dictionary:- "the real facts about a situation, event, or person" "the quality of being true" - this is pretty self explanatory.
The definition does not contain "real fact about a situation, event or person including incorrectly remembered facts, innuendo and scuttlebutt."