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Originally Posted by jebartle
Wouldn't it be great when truth really mattered??? I can remember in debate club when that was a priority, hmmm! The good ole days. Loved that show.
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"What is Truth?" (Pontius Pilate)
I think ol' Pontius made a valid point. If the definition of Truth was elusive in his day, then it is multiples times multiples more so today. Pilate didn't have to contend with the internet and "social" media. I can think of no point or belief so outrageous that you most likely cannot find hundreds of people agreeing with it in just a few mouse clicks, and in just a few more clicks find mountains of "data" to support it--as well as a variety of pundits and commentators more than willing to back it up.
I used to think that the atomic bomb was the biggest threat to our civilization. No longer. that threat is now Big Media.
We're light-years away from Uncle Walter being The Most Trusted Man In America.