“Your truth?” You sound like Oprah!
The social media dilemma: 1) you can open your mouth to speak your heterodox truth, but sandstorms of outrage will blast your teeth and clog your throat, or, 2) you can keep your mouth shut, but your truth will die with you.
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The phrase also features prominently in several
#JBP lecures also.
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So everybody's truths died within them before social media existed?
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both are true. this is the difficulty with self expression as a whole. Truth tellers are usually exiled or worse.
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It presents you with the opportunity to gain many friends you would make by choice, at the cost of losing most of those you've picked up by accident. But most smart people are risk-averse and choose soul-crushing silence over dangerous truth telling.
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Your truth I thought the truth matters.
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I rail against the PC nonsense that we're in the middle of, but isn't truth somewhat relative? My 'truth' may not be yours.
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Is social media the best format for difficult truths? Blogs (and tweeting them) are better.
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There is no "your truth". Apologies to Oprah.
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And don't dare to tell a joke
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