Subject: Trying to unravel the answer.
Should we stop castigating Donald Trump and start to reserve our disdain for the more traditional diplomat and politician schooled in the black art of subterfuge and obverscatIon. Should we acknowledge that no matter how uncomfortable it leaves us we are better knowing the truth. Of course it's Donald Trumps truth but since he has all the leavers of power, his truth counts.
As we become schooled in receiving our information from so many varied sources, some of them from behind enemy lines so to speak, it strikes me that of the many truths we receive from so many sources, in fact is there are as many truths as there are tellings. Each man or woman's truth is down to their individuals experience.
Truth in human terms is so multifaceted, maybe there is no such thing, only the individual prejudice brought on by what we actually observe and the interpretation that cultural training makes of what we understand on seeing something.
If Donald Trumps truth is skewed by his ego and money is it any worse than a Vatican official who's truth is skewed by the need for his sense of collegiate reasoning. All our truths are tainted by the way we view the world. If I am a crown prince and one of my people openly critiques me, does not the pressure of tradition lead me to revenge myself on behalf of my office.
The complexity of an attempt to have one set of rules and one set of values is that we have to twist ourselves into such a convoluted mental shape to conform, that the resultant distortion makes a mockery of who we really are.
Should for instance my truth follow a religious direction and if so which one. Should my truth be effected by the teachings of a cultural civilisation which is 3000 years old, or one with just over 300 on the clock.
The truth we seek is often bound up in circumstance, upbringing and gender. Perhaps there are no hard truths, not even in physics where new discoveries lead science to continually modify its concept of scientific truth.
Truth is a compromise, it's an effort to find solutions by having a code, a set of rules which allows us to come to terms with our specific idea of right and wrong, good and bad. When we demand the truth we better understand the question and especially the person we are addressing, before we try to unravel the answer.
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