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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Lies in the service of the "truth"

The New York Times coverage on the crisis of "truth" in the military -- is not terribly surprising, but what's agonizing is that the "crisis" is just one more five minute blip on the cultural radar.

I could blog for hours on this:

-the contextual nature of truth
-one's interests in power presuppose their ability to see any kind of "truth"
-what is True in one cultural context may have vastly different implications in other contexts...
-and on...

but instead...back to grading....

posted by Redbaerd at 7:00 AM

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jesus said, I am the Way the TRUTH and the life---

10:38 PM  
Blogger Redbaerd said...

do you know what he meant?

11:22 PM  

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