La Voz de Galicia – January 18, 2026 →
The American philosopher and psychologist William James once said, “There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.” And even though James died more than a hundred years ago, one cannot help but think how well this phrase captures the historical moment we are living in. What, then, is truth today? Perhaps it is what we are told to believe, because the way facts are presented to us pushes us to understand them in the way others want us to. Or perhaps it is what we choose to believe once we have all the data to verify and establish our own version of that truth. Whatever the answer, we must not forget that this data—the facts we use to build our version of reality—already reach us filtered through an invisible force that makes us see things from a particular perspective: the one politicians, the media, or algorithms decide for us. And more and more, the truth of a single event is impossible to see, because there is so much noise around it, so much absurdity, that one begins to question whether their own reading of reality is really the truth.
We live in the absurdity that James spoke of. In the information age, truths, lies, and inventions all coexist in the same universe, where it is already impossible to discern what is real and what is not. And in that absurd reality, we must make a decision—ideally our own—about the truth we want to believe, in order to continue living in a world that already far surpasses any dystopian version of the human condition. The pursuit of truth is as beautiful as it is complex, it is part of us, but today more than ever, reaching it is almost impossible.
