We can bleat forever about the nature of truth.  I generally prefer a
limited notion of truth and honesty against lies and deception.  This
is not the whole story, but broadly speaking, if I'm on a jury I want
to know 'the truth' to make my decision.  I don't much fancy sending
someone to the gallows on the basis of whether Jupiter is in
conjunction with a horse's ass.  What has happened to this level of
truth and in whose interests is it to make it so difficult to know
about global warming, wealth, what our basic ways of living should be
and so on?  An exploration of human and vested interests is likely to
tell us more about this than trying to find personal integrity.  The
general academic consensus is that we shy away from even looking at
what goes on in the world because we are dire cowards who need to live
in relativistic cloud-cuckoo lands and that reality is too tough for
us.

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