There are two truths in this world. The Actual truth and the Virtual truth. When an event occurs the Actual truth begins its decent into misinformation immediately as eye witnesses die or forget, as documents perish, as physical evidence disappears, etc. Yet the Virtual truth, due to the reworking of memories, media coverage, hear say, and fiction (in short belief) grows truer than the Actual truth.
The Actual past is brittle, ever dimming, ever problematic to reconstruct or access. In contrast the Virtual truth is flexible, workable, and ever brightening, ever more difficult to circumvent or prove false.
Human will breeds mythologies and creates legitimacy in circumstances based on our desired outcomes. Human will presses the Virtual truth into its service. Human will seeks power. The will to power seeks new truths, more convenient truths, Virtual truths. The will to power has always sought to shape our understanding of the past. However with the Anachron, Actual truth can and will be known and schemes of Virtual truths can finally be cast aside.
An excerpt from US News & World Report:
Headline - 28 Massacred in Iran
Bradley Cane, 31 year old army specialist, was taken into custody by military police for the murder of 3 American service men, and 25 Iranian civilians, including women and children. A war crimes trial is has not been scheduled as of yet. The trial will be a closed military hearing. The FBI and the Army are working to investigate the cause of the incident. Early reports suggest Cane succumbed to combat fatigue. Cane had served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and was about to complete his first tour in Iran in under two and a half years.
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On the 14th floor of the IRS building in downtown Fort Worth Texas, overlooking Burnett Plaza, FBI agents along with members of the Secret Service are setting up their investigation of today's assassination attempt on the President of the United States of America.
Nearly 200 feet below them, in the sub-basement of the same building a burgeoning division of the FBI are setting up their own investigation.
I have more to post, but I am debating on what I want to post, and what I want you guys to start digging for at the beginning of the next session.
ReplyDeleteI promised to set you free at the beginning of the next session. I think you having less information will allow you to ask questions and start role-playing rather than me giving you everything via the blog.
Lack of information forces you to go out and get that information. Be prepared to start the session talking to members of the FBI. Your conversations will lead you the answers you want. Once you hit a dead end with the FBI then we can move on to using the Anachron to dig deeper.
I am pretty sure we are going to make use of the Anachron this next session. I have the scene framed in my mind. I will frame the first one, but after that you will be on your own.