Truth

A stunning, well-argued article by Richard North in which he discusses the media and political establishments' dissemination of disinformation and misinformation - which people meekly accept, without critical appraisal.

We, as a population, have moved on quite a bit over the past few years.

In 2008, for instance, the authors of most of the top-rated comments in national newspapers like the Telegraph would have been dismissed as "swivel-eyed loonies", had they expressed then what they express now, with such passion.

From small seeds emanating from the dogged determination and hard work of people like Dr North and other great bloggers, the appreciation of liberty and what it truly means has spread. People are educating themselves, willingly - and they, in turn, are educating others.

The funny thing about truth is that once it's out, there's no way of stuffing it back into its box. Once born, it lives and nourishes.

Lies and spin, on the other hand, must be constantly tended and patched up. To achieve that aim requires an enormous expenditure of effort and resources. The greater the lie, the greater the stakes and the harder the fall for its proponents. The web of lies eventually destroys itself via its own mass of contradictions; it ceases to make sense. Once born, the big lie ensures its own destruction.

That's where we are now - truth gaining on the lie. People are waking up in ever greater numbers.

Provided that we keep the truth alive and constantly seek it, we should be able to counter the lunacy which we've had to endure for decades and ensure that future generations are raised on a diet of truth, common sense and integrity.

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"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." 

-- Winston Churchill