So Here's the Interesting Part...

When I climbed on this soapbox, I had intended to take a lofty, high minded intellectual view. Alas... Last night I was watching the TV Show "Orville" episode 7 "Majority Rule" and it spoke to exactly the ideas I've been thinking about, so I couldn't resist sharing it. Orville, a Seth MacFarlane project, is a humorous take on Star Trek.  Obviously, spoilers ahead... Majority Rule Imagine a society guided by an absolute democracy. The population can vote yes or no on everything. There are no fixed laws. Actually, the only laws guide how votes are organized. At the age of 18, all citizens are issued and required to wear a little gadget on their chest with an up or down button and a running counts of "likes" vs "dislikes".  At some level (500,000 dislikes ?) individuals start to lose rights - like service at a cafe. At a very high level of 10 million dislikes, "criminals by acclimation" are required to undergo lobotomy-like r

truth NOUN [mass noun]            Origin: Old English trīewth, trēowth ‘faithfulness, constancy’ 1 The quality or state of being true. ‘he had to accept the truth of her accusation’ 1.1 (also  the truth ) That which is true or in accordance with fact or reality. ‘tell me the truth’ ‘she found out the truth about him’ 1.2 [count noun] A fact or belief that is accepted as true. ‘the emergence of scientific truths’ ‘the fundamental truths about mankind’ It is no secret to anyone who knows me that I extremely critical of the Trump Regime.  However, if I am honest, I think that Donald Trump is a symptom a deeply divided society, not the cause of it.   I have a new soapbox... The fundamental, basic characteristic of this divide is our societies' tenuous relationship with the concept of TRUTH.  I'm not sure yet if this is a cause or symptom, but its deeply involved.  I decided to put some thought in to this and consider what we mean by TRUTH. The definitio