Visualization of Steven Brown’s poem, Whale Bone.
“I watch as the whales go by, all breath,
touching the things that cannot last.“
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Truth Is a 4-Letter Word
We live in a world of lying and fake news. Where public opinion is shaped by appeals to emotion, not facts.
Compounding the problem is human nature. The limbic system of our brain is hard-wired to shield our core beliefs from contradictory evidence, and in debates will automatically deploy strategies to (1) deny facts, (2) dispute the validity of facts – and, if need be, (3) reframe an issue from another perspective so as to make facts irrelevant.
Social media and AI generated deepfakes are also complicit in enabling disinformation campaigns and the war on truth.
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If I Could Tell You
There is an Ancient Greek claim by a guy named Gorgias that nothing exists and even if it did exist no one could know it; and if anyone did know it, it could not be communicated.
Rather nihilistic, eh?
Gorgias was a Sophist and Sophists were traveling philosophers who for a fee dazzled you with their cleverness and snake-oil way with words. Sort of like politicians today.
W. H. Auden was a poet from our era (1907-1973) and poets are certainly not philosophers but here is an interesting poem about how we really don’t know anything about Life, and Time will only tell us, “I told you so.”
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