Is the world real?

Our minds are so biased after all that hearing business men's talk that we ended up having ideas that fit their purposes very well.
Like, for example, after studying at school I ended up believing that reality does not exist. What? John Searle in his book "Language, mind and society" discusses this issue. These business men have managed to make us believe something so foolish as that reality does not exist and everything is realative...Oh my. I understand what is the purpose of this belief. It serves their interests very well: reality does not exist...then there is a soldier dying in Iraq, but there is not a soldier dying in Iraq...it is relative. What?
What is relative here is their discourse...their discourse is relative and biased and serves their own purposes...reality exists...They even managed to fuck up philosophy.
The same is true for moral relativity: it is unfair to kill but it is fair to kill sometimes. It depends. Hey! It does not depend at all!

Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Press Dinner (17 mins)



I knew all these things before growing up, they were obvious. Every child knows that reality exists and it is not fair to kill and that the king makes his own interests. And they knew them at Dante's time. But then all our culture was financed by business men and we ended up like that. Trapped in Matrix. Believing foolish things that go against our interests. My brother was killed...but it was not. It was unfair...but it depends.

The only thing that is not real is language.
I was in the newspaper today. I did not know before that I was a Spanish major and I don't remeber saying those things...but probably reality at that time was being relative and what is written on the newspaker is right. I should change my memory and conform it to what it is written there. I am a Spanish major and I said that the voices of Spanish people in the USA can be heard only if we are able to know about the facts. No...not even like that...I quote " It is important that our voices should be heard because there are things we need to know about"
You can imagine what I really said instead. I do not blame who wrote the article. What I said acquired a new meaning...or maybe no meaning at all when she tried to make my words fit her mental schemes.

This is a song I will give to my students. It is about real morality. The French singer Brassen's song Dom Juan criticizes our false sense of morality talking about a soldier that spares his enemy's life when he has been defeated. In this song De Andrè, an Italian singer, talks about the story of a soldier that decided to die not to shoot the enemy when he saw him, because he did not want to see the eyes of a man dying.




Songs like that cannot be found everywhere.
Expecially in Italy, where after Dante the whole litterature was sponsored by the rich and wealthy of the nation...and fosters this kind of distorted morality. And then we had Mafia. The climax.
In Naples now they ended up buying the toxic waste from the factories in the north or abroad and put them in the garden of common people who would accept to have them for a little money and then die of cancer. A big business..I can tell you. And I did not know anything about it before I saw the movie Gomorra, candidate to the Oscars this year. And the biggest dump of the region is just a few kilometers from my house.
I can tell you that that dump is real...