The People's Initiative Supreme Court Decision... A Love Story?

Political Documents offer us a great wealth of information. Butinformation, by its nature, should be checked and validated in termsof its accuracy. In this regard, the study of political documents asan approach in exploring a society's socio-political reality shouldbe utilized with care and caution. Drawing reckless conclusions fromraw information often leads to problematic analysis in terms ofcharacters, motivations and intentions. As a result, it is oftendifficult to identify self-serving distortions of truth.

"The Truth", in this approach, does not exist. What we have areversions or distortions of what we perceived to be the valid or theinvalid versions or distortions of the truth. It is the public, asthe final arbiter, who determines which version will become thestandard from which other versions will be measured. Thus, truth isnothing more but a version or distortion that is validated by thepublic consensus.
As writers, our task is to identify these self-serving distortions orversions of the truth as well as the sources of these self-servingdistortions and versions of the truth. It is from these distortionsor versions and sources of distortions or versions that we are ableto determine the components of the material we want to construct.Thus, we dissect a document in terms of characters, motivations,intentions and versions or distortions of the truth. These fourcomponents constantly collide and as a result the inherent conflictin a document begins to crystallize.

The recent judicial decision regarding the "People's Initiative" is agood example of a political document. Each character in the documentoffers a self-serving version or distortion of the truth. Versions,when validated and checked, approximates the socio-political realityof our society. As writers, we begin to ask the question, which ofthe distortions or versions we find appealing?
Ideology, again, plays an important role in answering this question.We might parallel ourselves to one version or distortion andsystematically destroy the other versions or distortions by exposingwhat we perceived to be flaws or evils of the said rejected versionsor distortions. Or perhaps, add another version or distortion of thetruth that we feel is more appealing compared to the existing ones.

Studying the judicial decision regarding the people's initiative, asa political document, is a good opportunity for us to find a humanface deep within a legal document. One way or the other,conspiracies and unsolicited relationships arise among charactersthat seek to promote their respective versions or distortions of thetruth. Who knows, you might find a love story in it?

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