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The Blind Men and the Elephant
Look for the deeper meaning to this poem. The author is anonymous. Enjoy!
It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined
(Though all of them were blind).
That each by observation
And happening to fall
At once began to bawl: God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, Ho! what have we here
so very round and smooth and sharp?
To me tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!
The Third approached the animal
And happening to take
What comes after post-truth? Weaponized fantasy
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January 31, 2021
I would rather have questions that can t be answered than answers that can t be questioned. – Richard P. Feynman
It s funny, isn t it? The ones who, only moments ago, were screeching, There is no such thing as truth! are now enforcing truth.
Postmodernism was always an absurdity; a punchline. The proposition refutes itself: Nothing is true cannot be a true statement, by its own definition. And yet we had some very educated people believing this nonsense for a long time.
That time appears to be over. The disbelievers in truth have seen the light! Now they are the keepers of the Authentic and Only Verity, which (somehow) gives them the moral right to censor and silence anyone who would dissent. Social media platforms want to protect us from dangerous speech, which can be defined as speech that doesn t conform to the approved narrative. Those in political power pretend metaphysical certainty a
. (These proposals subsequently failed.) The net difference between those two views is well over $150 billion dollars in a single year.
In an ideal world, the defense budget debate would be fact-based and informed. Of course, no one should be under any illusion that final defense budgets spring fully formed from dispassionate strategic analyses. The last word on defense spending always results from the clash of strategic thought and the reigning political environment.
In the United States, such quarrels go back to the birth of the nation. George Washington did not just fight the British. He also constantly fought the Continental Congress for money to support the impoverished colonial army. In 1941, with war approaching, Gen. George Marshall repeatedly quarreled over the need for more money with President Franklin Roosevelt, who was caught between competing political interests. More recently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates battled to establish a floor under defense funding, s
Can dropping a little data change conclusions?
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