The Performative Theory of Truth

The idea that truth has to do with a way of speaking rather than with objects or facts themselves.
The Composer	Conceives "the Work" and creates a score to that end.
The Score	Is the intention created by the composer to reach "the Work"
The Performer	Interpret the score based on their own life experiences.
The Audience	Interprets the Performers
The Critics & Philosophers	Interpret the Score and Performers
"All we have is the score, plus in some cases, what the composer says about it, and the best we can hope to do is perform it as we see fit, appreciate or criticize the performances, and forget about 'the work' "

1. Totalitarianism
   1. Truth is the same as what is politically correct.

   2. When the physical records of events or evidence can be eradicated and the ordinary sense of truth is unobtainable, then truth can be proclaimed and renounced at any time.

   3. The triumph of totalitarianism is to annul what true by authoritative acts so that non-truth tellers cannot be accused of lying. Wickedness and treachery, yes; but not lying.

2. Totalitarian functionaries are not performers, really, because they merely recite and quote the score, without the added effort of interpreting the meaning to get at the work. In this example, if the work is historical truth, then the score is a fraud anyway--as if the [Handal's] Messiah had been transcribed into a military march--and no recital, quotation, or performance could possibly represent the work.
   1. If Carl Marx wrote the score (the work being Communism), and the succeeding performers being Lenin, then Stalin, would the change from Communism to Totalitarianism be an interpretation of the score? What would make the score (Communism) a "fraud"? The composition, the performance, or the interpretation? Since the original work was "forgotten" the performance would be interpreted as the original score, and consequently, True Communism, Democracy, nor any ideology ever come to fruition.

   2. Handal's Messiah being transcribed into a military march would render it "unintelligible". This analogy appears to be a non sequitur.