“ There is no Truth. There are only ways of seeing.
paraphrasing John Berger
Obviously as an anthropologist I take joy in applying this quote in many instances. It’s not something to be thought about flippantly with a response like “But in mathematics 2 + 2 will always be four.” I think what John Berger was pointing out when saying this was that we each have our own set of lenses of how we see and interpret the world. Arundhati Roy related to it best when she made the comment that “never again will a story be told as if it were the only one.” Roy was saying that several people can tell a story about the same event but the interpretations and feelings of the matter will all be different because we have different ways of seeing and feeling.
