Why there are not many different truths
but there are many different lies and errors

Blazing Reader,

In the April 24th episode of Just Right host Bob Metz makes this astute observation about why there can not be many truths:

"To claim that there are many different truths already begins with a false definition of truth. If I say 2+2=4 and someone else says 2+2=5 there is no way that you are going to argue that these are different truths. The truth is that there are not 'many different truths' but that there are many different lies and errors."

He even gets a little Biblical by pointing out that the "road to truth always follows the narrowest path for the very reason that the path to truth always leads to the one — the one truth."

And then he makes an observation — which a novelist like myself greatly appreciates — explaining why fiction is often better at delivering truth than facts:

"While it can always be said that facts are true, to the extent that they are factual, facts alone do not constitute the truth. Truth is in the narrative. Great fictions often contain great truth even though the fictional facts and circumstances do not actually exist."

Spreading truth with fiction...

John C.A. Manley

PS You can listen to the full episode, which focuses on discerning the truth about political movements, at Just Right Media.

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscirber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/