Tucker Carlson, ex-Cable TV news guy released a video on twitter today, few days after his sacking and he spoke about “the truth”. It appears the poor fella confuses the word ‘OPINION’ with the word ‘TRUTH’. If you believe something to be true, and fervently believe it to be true, doesn’t mean it is true.
Before giving testimony, witnesses raise their hand and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But what is that truth?
Human beings have committed heinous crimes against each other since time immemorial. And we continue to do so. In all that time, there has been religion and the ‘thou shall not kill’ and the rest, but when someone picks up a weapon that has been made for killing, perhaps there’s a chance someone will be killed? But that seems to be a truth that many do not accept to be true.
We talk about the truth all the time. We want the truth. But whose truth exactly?
What really is the truth?
When someone says: “that is what I believe to be the truth”, they are usually lying. The truth is not what we believe to be the truth. So, what is the truth? And whose truth is it?
Knowledge can improve the world we live in 