Black & White, I Fear Thee

For a long time I was afraid of grey.
I believed that the sense of purity and truth were isolated in black and white, the colours of good and evil, et cetera. But, who created those concepts? God? Evolution?
If the answer were God, the idea of a reality founded on the pillars of two opposing forces would be accurate and dogmatic. If the answer were Evolution, not you nor me could think about the concept, it would be carved in our behaviour by the wedge of our genes.
But the answer is "men".
Men created good and evil, men created neutrality too. Men created, create and will create, and this is what this Book is about.
So two opposing forces are no more than a semi-universal consensus between men who perceived some basic attributes over a non described (before) tangible or intangible concept, they described it (commonly first), named it and transmitted it.
Obviously there are differences in the perception of these concepts between one culture and another, even between one man and another, and that is when "grey" makes its grand entrance.
When men can´t establish a solid parameter to judge between black and white, they make fortuitous mention of "greys", and that´s why I put all my interest on that "colour". If you think carefully and undressed of all social conventions you can easily notice that Good and Evil (exempli gratia), can be proven to be one another and vice versa, which means that there is no essential purity in either side but chaos, grey chaos, that can be organized, like any other chaotic realm, depending the situation´s frame and observer to be closer to one side or another.
Said this, everything takes the form of a variable (even solid, tangible, machine-made objects vary in some form) but society agrees to see everything obtusely plain and simple because after reaching some age it´s easier (and normal) to see than to observe.
To see things as we have been taught to do, to walk on this Earth accepting the facts and just working over them is what makes us slaves of our own species.
We are, certainly, not free, but nothing is free at all, every single particle is submissive to another as we are to nature, time and space (normally), et cetera, but we can be free at least from ourselves and our species, if we start to observe the "grey", the concept that nothing is really a pure standard but a notion of it, that we could reimagine the world, rename it and give it a new meaning.
We have to stop accepting the facts and working over them, and start creating notions and manipulate them as we please, this does not guarantee that we could do everything we want, because the odds are mostly against that, but we can live with less fear and submission, we can free our minds and perceive things from a higher and useful perspective.

Grey is truth.


And a lie.