truth

“Truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

I have come to see truth as a useful construction for most people. That doesn’t mean the ‘truth’ they believe isn’t true, it means their reasons for believing it have less to do with it’s truth and more to do with the believer’s needs. The believer wants things to match their world and so constructing a truth that validates that world is very helpful.

But equally interesting is the phenomenon of when a person turns their own world upside down, converts to a new ‘truth’, abandons an old one, rejects prior reasons something was ‘true’. That destruction, or deconstruction, is simply a process by which one ‘truth’ that no longer fits their needs is jettisoned and a new ‘truth’, one closer to reality maybe, maybe not, is found to replace the fallen ‘truth’.

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