This is one of the few articles I translate into English personally because using an automated translator on my blog dilutes its essence. Sarcasm, popular colloquialisms, irony, and double meanings lose their nuance in translation.
We live in an era where truth and credibility have become as elusive as they are essential. It’s ironic how truth, that cornerstone of our understanding of the world, can be so subject to personal interpretation that what is indisputable to one person is an unsolvable puzzle to another. And it’s at this crossroads that a paradox strikes at the heart of human communication: “Your problem is that I don’t believe you, but my problem is that what you preach, from my perspective, is not credible.”
Whose fault is it? One might ask. But this question carries a fundamental error: assuming that credibility is an inherent quality of the message and not the receiver. The irony here lies in the duality of the issue: if your challenge is that I don’t believe you, then the challenge should also be your ability to make what you preach believable. It’s not just about how true your statement is, but how well you make that truth resonate in the mind of your audience.
The Paradox of Belief.
If I don’t believe you, the problem might not lie in the veracity of your message but in my perception of it. From a philosophical standpoint, truth and belief are two sides of the same coin, but credibility is the alloy that holds them together. If the coin corrodes, no matter how true the message is, it will always seem false or irrelevant.
Here lies an essential question: Should you be more concerned with understanding the message you’re trying to convey, or with ensuring that what you understand can actually be understood by others? If your concern is that I don’t believe you, then perhaps you should question whether what you believe is credible enough or if you understand it at a level that allows you to express it with clarity and conviction.
The Echo of Misunderstanding.
The real challenge, then, is not simply to preach the truth, but to translate that truth in a way that is accessible and persuasive. Here’s another irony: in communication, clarity isn’t always the goal. Sometimes complexity and mystery are necessary to convey deep ideas. However, when these ideas become so complex that they challenge the receptor’s ability to understand, they risk becoming incomprehensible and, consequently, incredibly distant.
It’s possible that, as a bearer of truth, you might be so immersed in your own understanding that you forget others don’t share your point of view. Communication fails here, not because the message is wrong, but because the way it is presented fails to cross the barrier of others’ perceptions. Truth without credibility is like a light without shine: it exists, but it doesn’t illuminate.
The Faith in Understanding.
So, what to do? Perhaps, instead of focusing solely on the truth we want to convey, we should focus on understanding how that truth is perceived by others. Ultimately, credibility is not just a matter of truth but of mutual faith in the ability to understand and be understood.
Your problem is that I don’t believe you; my problem is that what you preach is not credible from my perspective. This statement is more than a mere complaint: it’s a call to reflect on the nature of truth, communication, and belief. To be credible, you must first be understood, and to be understood, you must first grasp not just what you’re saying, but how you’re saying it and to whom you’re saying it.
Isn’t it ironic? In the effort to communicate truth, perhaps what we need is less emphasis on what we believe and more on how we believe it. Because, at the end of the day, credibility is not just a matter of who is speaking but also of who is listening.
Poe-Style Paradoxical Conclusion.
When creating “SINTONIZANDO SABERES DE MENTES CONVERGENTES,” I was engulfed by shadows of furtive thoughts: What will my peers murmur in the dim light of doubt? What will my friends whisper in the twilight of mockery? What echo will my ex-wives, witnesses to my contradictions, have? And what will those who know my abysses and other anomalies like me say, who dare to read my labyrinths?
To which I replied: Let the shadows speak, let them whisper in the darkness. Let them think whatever they wish, except that my words lack logic. Except that I write lies disguised as truths. For what they think of my thoughts may just be distorted reflections of their own uncertainties. But I, lost in this dance of specters, between what I think, what I write, and what becomes blurred in their minds, the paradox of credibility flows like a dark river: Everyone is right in their delusion, and at the same time, we are all irredeemably wrong, dancing on the edge of an abyss where truth and falsehood are mirages in the eternal night.
Author: Job Vasquez
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