[duncanalisstmp]

You snipped out all the parts about Meg Greenfield. She was one of the very very few honest people in Washington DC.

All I can say about this article is that it agrees with my own view of what the truth is. And it gives good advice.

The truth is whatever you believe. If you don't believe it, it's not the truth. There are no other standards for the truth. You do not need logic, or reason, or even facts to think something is true. All you need is to believe it. If I agree with you, it means that I believe it too. Even if it's a lie that we both believe.

Because the 'truth' is so subjective, it is more productive to develop a keen ability to spot lies. This is where reason and logic and facts are extremely useful. If you can identify when people are lying, it won't get you to the truth, but at least you won't waste a lot of time believing lies, and you won't waste other peoples' time and energy trying to convince you that you believe a pack of lies.

Most people believe lies. The people who don't are in a minority, and most of them know how futile it is to convince the people who believe lies that that is what they believe. I think that the world is divided among people who are willing to think things through and inform themselves about what happens, and people who spend all their time avoiding thinking altogether. Propaganda is for the latter group. What people think about 911 is a great example of this. The thinkers will dismiss the 'official story' as a pack of lies. Everybody else will accept the official story, and allow that to occupy the honored place of truth in their minds, and disbelieve any other more likely explanation.

The truth is what you believe. Everything else is not the truth. Don't believe lies.


Hatha