Jesus, the so-called Christ, and mythologies

If Jesus, the so-called Christ, was a lower-class peasant Jew at ancient Palestine, then the textual traditions of the Bible come to us from Judeo-Christian cultures.

Jesus, the historical human being, most likely, was semi-illiterate: he did not know how to write. So, we actually don’t know which his ideas and actions were. His purpose, his goals, his views, his teachings, his actions, were written down by others, decades and centuries later of his time, outside ancient Palestine and by upper-class Greek-Roman authors.

And yet, the Bible and those Judeo-Christian cultures, are very important in order to better understand the mix of cultures around today.

For example, how Judeo-Christian myths work (in the anthropological sense). The tales by which there are many messianic attitudes all around today with parallels to the prophecies of the Messiah and other elements of such tales. Like the concept of gospel, and salvation, and the plot between forces of evil against god, and elements of that sort.

It is a very complex and fascinating set of topics from historical and anthropological scholarship.

Deep fake

I just read: Tech trends 2019: 'The end of truth as we know it?'.

Near the end of the first video at the ‘Fake news?’ section, it catches my attention the tense used:

«…people won’t be able to trust the truth. They won’t be able to tell what is real, what is not real…».

It seems like this is something that will occur in the future, near or otherwise, to ‘people’. As if we ‘people’ –the general public– were able to do it now.

Of course, my wonder is philosophical in kind; that is, it tries to problematize the topic, to open questions, not to close them.

The cultivation of questions about truth and reality have built colossal schools of thought about ontology (reality) and epistemology (knowing truths about reality) since millennia. So, these “news” revolve around those same old questions about truth and reality. I simply see more imminent reasons to go back to the very basics of philosophical thought in the many traditions of intellectually adult human culture.