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Dear Editor:
Today, I’d like to write about Truth. Something we have lost a great deal of.
Variously defined – truth can be: 1) the body of real things, events, and facts; 2) a judgment, proposition, or idea that is true or accepted as true; or 3) the quality or state of being in accord with fact or reality.
Today, it seems, the world we live in has a lot of trouble offering or dealing with the truth. We are led in many directions, through media for the most part, away from truth. The reasons vary.
It is the second definition above that concerns me the most.
If someone, or a body of someones, decides that it will be alright, and beneficial to their cause, to make a judgment, proposition, or to create an idea that might very well be accepted as true – even though the facts have been left behind, it is regarded as good enough, tremendous even, to flash it out into the news stream.
It happens all the time, and increasingly so. And, unfortunately, it has been happening for some time.
Political entities (on both sides) create many of these judgments, propositions, and ideas, with an agenda. And as a result, we no longer can fully believe much of anything which is put forth. Tell a principled lie to the party faithful and they will be led to all manner of over-reaction, or hatred, even.
Which leads to the question: is the problem that facts are engineered to benefit the practitioners, or that they are accepted by the gullible masses? Both – I’d presume. We are told by those sources falsehoods which they want us to believe as true. We believe as true, that which we want to believe.
We are a divided nation and one man’s truth is another man’s fiction. Ideas flash so quickly from source to receptor that it is almost impossible to analyze and discern what is true and what is false. As a result, many have taken the position that nothing is the truth – and with good reason.
Because of the advancement of A.I., no picture, no video, no sound recording can assuredly be labeled as authentic. Coupled with media output, that leaves very little to believe, other than what is offered by one’s closest friends and partners.
It is a sad state of affairs and difficult to imagine what could be the leveling factor, the turning-back point. Without truth, there can be no justice, no honor, no expectations.
Morris Bedlam
Noblesville
Thank you for writing about a very important issue. Much of the population is in doubt about what the truth is on every issue and some have stopped listening to the local news. It seems common sense has been lost and the division of our country is yes – divided. I point the finger for misleading the American people to all forms of media.