The polygraph is the fulfillment of humanity's wet dream - a device that detects lies. A combination of mechanics and metaphysics. Although it is actually a machine that registers the physical reactions of the examinees and based on that builds an assumption about truth or lies. A combination of mechanics and biology. There is no metaphysics here...
But the polygraph, regardless of its actual performance, is very much becoming a part of our new reality. The fact that you once had a reality show with a polygraph, what does it mean? This is where we live...
In the story about the appointment of the head of the police, we read that the candidates took a polygraph. It's already bizarre enough. Imagine police "wolves", pasted with those tapes and miracles as they answer with "yes" or "no"...
Then I thought - how the old, former police "wolves" would look on the polygraph (if he had the powers attributed to him). Those from the communist phase would probably immediately arrest anyone who suggested a polygraph. What a "Polygraph Affair" it would turn out to be at the end (title: Polygraph on the party!), the end result - thirty-seven arrested, two missing. Such "wolves" they were. That's why their world fell apart the way it did. They believed that fear is more active than any idea. They were succeeded by those who discovered that money is more effective than any idea. Imagine a master's degree Veljović on a polygraph: that finding would probably look like Polokov picture. And those of today tremble from the polygraph like Porphyry from gender sensitive language...
I assume that in this particular case there is no legal obligation, but going to the polygraph test has, above all, media weight. Which means that in its essence it is the emblem of a new demagogy, techno-demagogy. Not infrequently, criminals also request a polygraph, believing that the very act of requesting such an examination will leave a favorable impression on the public.
Ultimately, science is a human activity, and that is its greatest limitation. What do you think they are The Stalins (i Brothers) the prosecutors had the most perfect polygraph, would any "result" be different from verdicts that were passed without a polygraph, relying on somewhat more classical methods?
That polygraph is a hell of a thing, definitely. It works more with aura and "added" semantics than actual powers. But the flourishing of the discourse on the polygraph could mean that it is increasingly difficult to distinguish lies from the truth, and that a society has sunk into an orgy of lies. And accompanying demagogy.
Even its mention is perceived as some kind of magical protection, a magic formula, expected deus ex machina... Perhaps a template for a Borgesian story is looming - "Polygraph in Babylonia". No one does anything, everyone goes to the polygraph: Babylonia lives the ecstasy of the truth.
I remember it was a few years ago Vucic every hour he promised the citizens that, on one occasion or another, he would take a polygraph. There would also be a polygraph - executed... And sign the application form for SNS.
Here, in this story of ours, we have an interesting, "genre" moment. The bazaar version of the polygraph-police operetta tells us about the "old and young polygraphist". Apparently, the old man didn't want to do it, so they brought in a young, inexperienced one. Who knows what happened there. It is always a narrative that clearly suggests - some abuse. Although, at least that's how it was announced, there are no old and young polygraphists. But the story is for the sake of the plot.
If this social manner spreads, here we have a new economic branch, a "small economy" that will flourish. Private polygraph shops - spouses bring each other, parents bring their children (and imagine if it was the other way around - that would be interesting too), deceived business partners, politicians before making an agreement on a coalition also go to the polygraph... That's big business. And that means big corruption. We'd probably get a polygraph examiner ready to attest to the truth pretty quickly Milo's words that he was always for Montenegro in the West.
In Montenegro, every polygraph would end up as an instrument of lies.
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