Friday, April 21, 2023

History Repeats the Old Conceits

There was once beauty in a worldview that offered clarity and transparency. Somewhere we lost track of it and allowed artistry to be transformed into artifice and truth to be replaced with what Stephen Colbert whimsically called truthiness.  

The white lies became little lies that became The Big Lie and now no one knows where truth ends and falsehood begins.  

In case, you thought or believed I was going help you out of the hole we've fallen into, sorry, Pilgrim, there's just not enough progress in the whole world to ever fill in that space. 

As much as I'd like to offer some helpful or at least hopeful words that there will come a day when we will look back at this time in our history as the nadir of honest dialogue from which we went on to bigger and better things, I think not.

Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch? You're eating it now. Grab a napkin.
-bill kenny

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