94677 - Against misinformation 

Ν. Λυγερός

For any democracy, misinformation is always an enemy because it’s a weapon of barbarity. Only knowledge can resist to it and this isn’t obvious for everybody even if a democracy is by its definition dependent of everybody. Misinformation is not only a tool. It’s really a weapon against freedom. Information is a tool and knowledge is a power. But it’s impossible to access easily to them and there is a need of huge willingness in order to fix this problem. In reality, it’s not a systemic problem, not even a structural. It remains a personal. Each person has to overpass its limits. The boundary between the light and the darkness is not obvious to everyone.  That’s why it’s so important to define it clearly because at the end we have the same problem for the struggle of Humanity against barbarity. We need to create new data for the future and also for the History of the future. This memory has to be constructed by our intelligence with all its meaning. We can’t follow misinformation to diffuse everywhere its poison in order to destroy the foundations of democracy.  We have to protect innocent people from this kind of attack. We have to teach them  not only what they can learn but also what they can understand with a different manner.