Thursday, March 15, 2018

Truth guides


No one can understand all of the world and its reality.  Each brain is a filtering mechanism that through its agents, mind and senses, grabs whatever it can of the world and its reality. As these two agents are built and nurtured, the world and its reality expands. In this way, we each find a truth in the world and its reality than we can live with and live by.

In this age of instant, global and personal communication, another filtering and mediating mechanism has emerged. News media, social media and entertainment media all throw images of the world and its reality at us. They swamp us in a muddle of information, misinformation, lies, distortions, marketing ploys, and even some provisional truths. These can be malicious, manipulative, educational, uplifting; but they all force us to constantly assess and reassess our “truth guides.”

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