The Truth may hurt, but its absence is culturally lethal

False witness, false flag, false teeth, false alarm, false arrest, false start, false friend, false news, false dawn, false move, false leg, false beard and false bonhomie.

They all come together in the group adjectival noun, falsehood.

Little Red Riding Hood discovered that her granny was a wolf engaged in falsehood.

Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. But Norman history calls the whole thing a falsehood.

There used to be a saying when I was younger, “We need insurance because you never know what might happen”.

Now we all need assurance because we never know what’s true or false.

But no such assurance is forthcoming.

This is the World we are Willing to our grandchildren. Will they be willing to accept it? I sincerely hope not….and there are some encouraging signs. For example, ImmunoCeutica is a grass-roots company focused on natural health products with immunological mechanisms of action, which are called “immunoceuticals”. The company emphasises the importance of making complexities of immunology accessible to the public. An expert with good communication skills can make the intricacies of their trade understandable in lay terms. (As an adman from 1969-2000, this was my job).

Similarly, while there is nothing normal about the conversations going on concerning Trump’s cabinet nominations, it’s abundantly clear that the Senate has little regard for the opinions of the People: the People have witnessed and suffered from a bureaucratic dictatorship, where senators and representatives hide behind regulations made by government agencies that act as laws. In a lot of cases, these agencies and bureaucrats can make laws, enforce them and punish violators no matter how ridiculous and illogical the regulations might be…all without ever going to court or submitting to due process. This is all part of the migration of power away from elected assemblies to other power centres. [This paragraph borrows gratefully from T L Davis’s substack post A Kaleidoscope of Fools – and see also the Slogpost of November 20th this year].

‘Falsehood’ can of course be both the collective noun when one word….or perhaps a counterfeit mobster, as in ‘A False Hood’.

In this sense, I can assure you all that – while President Joe Biden peddles falsehoods as his chosen way of life – in no way is he a False Hood: Sleazy Joe is the genuine article….a veritable Capone for our times.