All the Half-Truths in the World, Don’t Make the Whole Truth (Or Any Truth)

Journalists think that by obtaining as many half-truths (distortions) about a fact, they will all balance out and reveal the whole truth. However, the reporter will first screen out all those interviews that don’t align with their “angle,” the editor will further delete to their own tastes (political and editorial correctness), and then the headline writer, will sensationalize it to make a dull story exciting, and so the story is quite different than events experienced by those actually in attendance -- who often have no interest other than their own self-importance at such an event.

Hardly anybody expects anymore at such forums, for somebody just to describe the actualities of the facts -- without grossly distorting them to monstrous deceptions and manipulations to get everyone to see things their way. That is the unfortunate fate of such forums, as well as the death of the media reporting on them. Something new and better must come into being -- that may actually be helpful in attaining the greater insight and affirmation that is the ultimate objective of all social communications. When that is not achieved, or recognized as important, than these forums have outlived their usefulness -- as seems to be the case with most of the venues easily accessible as the public dialogue.

Meaningful and productive exchanges inevitably must take place entirely in the improvisational opportunities that are authentic exchanges. By all accounts, that is indeed taking place more frequently -- among people who have that capacity for it. Others will think that ritualized and routine chatter and rants, is the way humans communicate with one another -- and no one will inform them otherwise. They have to recognize the value as well as the possibility of another way.

Many people do go through their entire lives without a single authentic communication with another human being -- and one can tell that, in the manner of their speech -- of one ranting to the world, certain that no intelligent person would ever listen to them. Most do give others the benefit of the doubt until they recognize that these rants are the full range of expressions such individuals are capable of. Invariably, they insist they are the true leaders of their imagined constituency, of which they feel confident speaking for the world.

So actually, it is quite nice just to be sane enough to recognize that one speaks only for himself -- and that in doing so, that is the ultimate expression of each individual’s being -- and not that one claims to speak with great moral authority for the rest of the world.

Such people are deluded at best -- and listening only to such people, is the cause of much mental illness and illusion in this world. Sanity is recognizing one’s truth only as one’s own truth -- and not projecting it on to everybody else, as the great problems in the world -- with all its paranoia, deceptions, manipulations, conspiracies and rationalizations. That representation of authentic being, is the most important task of public life -- beyond the constant partisanship of half-truths posing as the whole truth.

Once the clarity of the whole truth is understood, one has fulfilled as the whole reason and purpose for government and its institutions -- and not just going through the motions mindlessly repeating every day and every word said before, as though that alone, was the purpose and meaning of it all.