This kind of thing is frightening to me, because it often gives me the feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. ... I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously colored what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that 'the facts' existed and were more or less discoverable.Also, in the truth department, goodonya Oprah.
- George Orwell, 1942 from "Looking Back on the Spanish War"
the thoughts of one Robert Stribley, who plans to contribute his dispatches with characteristic infrequency
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Same Now Only More So
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