Who do we believe in?

It is known that no person by himself can comprehend the whole reality. To understand what happened, what is happening, and the prospects for the future we depend on others, be they journalists, analysts, historians, anthropologists, communication specialists, researchers, teachers, colleagues, friends, acquaintances, influencers, neighbors, political leaders and so many more. They are the ones we listen to inform ourselves and interpret what happens in our community, in the country and, even more, in the world. That is, there is a huge and heterogeneous universe of intermediation between events, interpretations, and our perception and understanding of facts, processes, dynamics. 

This informative and analytical intermediation is conditioned in many ways. On the side of reporting and analyzing, there are thousands of interferences. Each power group provides itself with like-minded media and analysts to present perspectives that favor them. When this space of informative and interpretative intermediation is monopolized by dominant groups, objectivity and independence are lost. The intermediation comes plagued by spurious operations with deception, lies, fake news, biased interpretations. Far from clarifying and forming subjectivities capable of properly discerning among the flow of information that floods the world, it is a struggle or a real war to impose different or antagonistic interests.

Who to believe in these harsh circumstances? For now, it is essential to know who informs, what has been their trajectory, what interests they are associated with. The “source” of information conditions and often biases such information. Then there are those who analyze and try to interpret and make sense of what happens. It is necessary to know their ideology because each ideology carries within it the defense of different interests, something that is usually covered up or very partially explicit. There are strategic think tanks of global scope and from that level they reach countries to bring water to those mills. The dramatic thing is that this “water” usually brings tremendous suffering and punishment for many while a few access privileges and perks. 

And the people who receive that world of restrictions? There is a field in constant construction, or destruction. To clarify oneself day by day, reinforcing one’s own will, unmasking the covert and the operations of manipulation and submission; with a very unique compass to separate chaff from wheat, that is, to identify those who plunder, those who appropriate wealth and decision-making power, and those who do not have access to a good life. It is a first watershed, between torrents that favor or punish, corner, kill. Sensing this, various paths open, all unique, through which each generation accepts and tries to travel. Collective constructions in which needs, social desires, environmental responsibility play.

Greeetings,

The Editors