Does the truth matter to you?

[Boojatta]

For every individual -- and in particular for every politician, we must hasten to admit -- the interest possessed by an idea is divided in varying proportions between its truth-containing and its utilitarian function, between its content of information and its polemical power. But in few individuals more than in François Mitterrand have I seen such a complete effacement of the function of truth to the benefit of the function of utility. It is not, or not solely, a form of insincerity. It is simply the natural and total triumph of the tactical over the conceptual dimension.

-- Jean-François Revel

[pocoloco]

1. What is truth??

[panader0]

2. Nowadays - Truth wears a Burka

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. truth is in the eye of the beholder

because truth is beauty.

[Boojatta]

4. Kick