On the Ukraine Issue (Part 3): To doubt “Seeing is believing”

Are we relying too much on visuals?

Of course, what you actually see with your own eyes is more reliable than what others tell you.

People say things like, "Seeing is believing. "

However, I would like to ask you to wait a moment.

None of us can see everything at once. What we see is only a "part" or a "fragment" of the whole.

Let me give you an example.

Let's say you are walking down the street.

On the other side of the road, you see a man approaching you at a slight trot.

Then, from further away from the man, a woman comes running toward you, yelling something.

You listen to the woman yelling, "Thief! Somebody get that guy!"

The man turns around and glances at the woman several times, then suddenly increases his speed and starts running away from her.

It would appear to anyone that the man is a thief and is trying to escape from the woman.

But wait a minute.

Let's rewind back and look at the "footage" before you passed that way.

A man is walking down the street.

Then another man appears from behind him, passes him at a high rate of speed, and runs away. The man follows the other man with his eyes.

After a while, a woman comes running from behind the man, yelling...

If you had witnessed the whole scene, your judgment of who was the thief would have been different. But you judged the situation based solely on the scene you actually witnessed.

For example, the images on the TV news are only a small part or fragment of things.

We are only judging the circumstances of an event based on those parts or fragments.

It is all too obvious, but the TV screen may show the act, but it does not show the reason for the act.

Of course, we will not even know if the other man who passed the man and ran away was really the thief until we examine him more closely.

We need to keep in mind that political and military propaganda is formed by showing and letting people hear and see some of these things (video footage of the scene, interviews with someone, etc.).