By truth I mean facts. Some events are genuine Rashomon-like puzzles but most ("I went to the store at 2:30 pm today") aren't. Those 80s educations mystify everything too much. ("Wouldn't a 'store' to you be a 'situs of postcolonial exploitation' to others? And how do you know you went there?" Groovy but exhausting.)
Also, re-reading my statements above ("a fake world unto itself that people only think conveys up close and personal insight--ie 'the truth'"; "constructing a narrative that most people take for objective truth"), I'm not sure how you get from there to my "putting stock in" the Truth, in some old-fashioned Hilton Kramer sense.
To completely belabor this, Mark's suggestion is exactly what I'm talking about: putting additional facts before the public. When we discussed propaganda earlier, I advocated using the dictionary definition (that is, information that comes from one side); I'm not sure who called it "a systematic method of indoctrinating people to believe evil, vicious lies."
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- tom moody 1-27-2004 5:44 am
Also, re-reading my statements above ("a fake world unto itself that people only think conveys up close and personal insight--ie 'the truth'"; "constructing a narrative that most people take for objective truth"), I'm not sure how you get from there to my "putting stock in" the Truth, in some old-fashioned Hilton Kramer sense.
- tom moody 1-27-2004 5:53 am [add a comment]
To completely belabor this, Mark's suggestion is exactly what I'm talking about: putting additional facts before the public. When we discussed propaganda earlier, I advocated using the dictionary definition (that is, information that comes from one side); I'm not sure who called it "a systematic method of indoctrinating people to believe evil, vicious lies."
- tom moody 1-27-2004 7:12 am [add a comment]