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Originally posted by MaggieL
The point being that pols lie? That's not exactly a new emerging trend.
Pols (and US Presidents in particular) have been getting caught peddling hooey for centuries...it's just that you have to get out of school and into the real world before you realize that; it's not featured in the history texts.
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Thanks, I had no idea... The point that I was trying to make is in the culture of mass media one now has the tools to lie to millions of people at a time. Back in the day lying had to take place on a more or less face to face basis (yes I'm aware of the existance of newspapers prior to my birth) whereas now the tools for disseminating media have destroyed the adage seeing is believing. I'm not so naive as to think this is something that has happened overnight nor so naive to think that I am always being told the truth. I think you think I'm arguing for something I'm not; I believe in personal responsibility but that is it. I refuse to hold someone else up to my scale of values in the same manner that I won't acknowledge being held up to someone elses. In otherwords, to protect myself I won't trust everyone else to tell the truth but at the same time I am going to be as honest as is possible in dealing with the outside world as well as with myself. I also think that many people confuse truth with accuracy; two people could give differect answers about a shared event and still both be answering truthfully, that is where perspective comes into play. There is a myth out there that goes by the name of objectivity. It is a fairy tale to young science students by thier professors. Everything we percieve is mediated by our minds and therefore no account of reality can be truely accurate, and it can only be truthful in the sense of a single person relaying their perceptions without consciously altering the account.