№ 594. Our Facts, Our Truths and Our Reality

"Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with the existential problems of our times: climate, coronavirus, now, the battle for truth." --- Maria Ressa, Nobel Laureate

 

№ 493. History and the Apollo Moon Landings

History is politicized.

How much of what I've learned as textbook history is really true, fair or a balanced view? Is there even supposed to be a balanced view of history. How much of the propaganda of the victors went into the viewpoints that we learned in school?

Wasn't it said that "“In all revolutions the vanquished are the ones who are guilty of treason, even by the historians,”  “for history is written by the victors and framed according to the prejudices and bias existing on their side.” This is attributed to Sen. George Graham Vest, a former congressman for the Confederacy.

№ 431. Black Mirror Reality

Globalization and the internet may have made the world smaller, but now we're experiencing a counterattack, the regionalization of truth.

№ 370. Would or Wouldn't You

№ 328.Lies, Lies and More Lies 2

To rebuild belief in the power and value of truth, we can’t dodge its complexity. Truths can be and often are difficult to understand, discover, explain, verify. They are also disturbingly easy to hide, distort, abuse or twist. Often we cannot claim with any certainty to know the truth. We need to take stock of the various kinds of real and supposed truths out there and understand how to test their authenticity.

№ 297. In the Era of Post-Truth, Fake News, and Lies

"Error is continually repeated in action, and that is why we must not tire of repeating in words what is true." --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe