And the other half you didn't know are probably right.
Old truths decay
Kind of like "old tooths decay." Like the root canal I just had today. Life is becoming more like one long root canal appointment...
That they decay means they weren’t truths in the first place. There’s a big terminology problem with this article, with facts being changed, remade, unmade etc. But then why call them facts? Because people think they’re factual? If it turns out they were wrong it means they were wrong, is all. Not that facts have changed.
Cutesy postmodernism bores me. Poetry is something else, and I’ll allow Robert Frost in “Black Cottage” what I won’t the author of this article observe:
“For, dear me, why abandon a belief
Merely because it ceases to be true
Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt
It will turn true again, for so it goes
Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor”
“Life is becoming more like one long root canal appointment... “
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That appears to be the goal of our current regime, to make sure that we are all miserable all of the time. Their excuse for doing this will be that their intention was to make life a paradise for everyone. What was that old line about paving a road to somewhere?