What Was Once True No Longer Is True In Fact Truth Is In Question!

What was once true no longer is! It almost seems as though truth has been lost somewhere along the way.

What was truth about so many things has gone awry. Truth has now become what the general consensus says it is. And truth keeps changing as we pass from one exigency to the next.

Who would have ever thought 75 years ago so many things would turn so paradoxically different today.

Religion offers so many illustrations:

• TV Evangelists brought down by their own greed.

• The once seeming sacrosanct Catholic Church, terminally defiled by its fielding and shelter of pedophilic priest.

• Control of one side of the political process by a concordant between Global Corporations, Right Wing Conservatives and Fundamental Christian religions. This includes Catholics and Protestants in the same bordello bed with the other two dubious groups.

Reversion of the economy to the devices of the Robber Barons whose damage 75 years ago had been corrected by the New Deal giving greater equity for all, forever as we were emerging for a world war to a period of postwar prosperity!

The political process like the trial of court room cases which by twist and turn would ultimately find its way to the truth seems impotent now..

Last night reading a whodunit novel I read the following optimistic Truism:

The world operates on Truth… Lies are unstable elements that tend toward breaking down. (Lisa Unger Beautiful Lies, A novel.)

This statement was framed by two others made by the author in the same book:

Denial: She is a fragile bitch… so brittle and self conscious she cannot stand the sight of herself.

Denial, she wrapped her arms around me and whispered comforting statements.

(infra Beautiful Lies, A novel.)

Like what is right, what is true? Has the capacity of truth able to overcome the unstable element of lies been destroyed; has truth become so compromised that it no longer exists in our reality?

This morning I read the Op-Ed column of Tom Freidman in the New York Times.

The dysfunctions eating away at our future: politicians who only know how to

read polls, never change them; media outlets serving political parties; special interests buying senators; mindless partisanship; an epidemic of low expectations for our government. And us — we elected them all, and we tolerate them.  (Tom Freidman, NYT, 10-10-10 referring to article by Ryan Lizza’s in the Oct. 11 issue of The New Yorker)

On 10-7 I read the following in a Movie Review in the New York Times:

What happened to truth? Our noses have been rubbed in it progressively this last thirty years since the paradigm shift started in 1980. …

… Makes you wonder why anger of the kind so eloquently expressed … has been so inchoate. And through no fault of its own, the film may leave you dispirited as well as enraged.”  (October 7, 2010. NYT, MOVIE REVIEW | 'INSIDE JOB' Who Maimed the Economy, and How By A. O. SCOTT)

Freidman eloquently stated: an “epidemic of low expectations for our government. And us — we elected them all, and we tolerate them”

What has gone wrong, how did we become so skewed? Once I believed we individually and as a people had a set of core value fundamental to us. Nothing in the contemporary could compromise this core. Was I wrong?

Between political grid lock, pandering of special interests by too many, self interest sublimely exercised, we are no longer a body politic operating for the Common Good. We serve the Special Interest of the Select.

Hidden agenda, secret deals, subterfuge, vested interest, personal entitlement of the professional politician, pandering to the electorate, with lies, half truths and the whirling dervish of spin have become our pursuit of truth and our security in our political process.

I cite political process as the readiest and most blatant illustration of what I mean to say.

We are adrift and this may be inalterable beyond remedy.   

This incongruity is also manifest in the World of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). What is true and what is hype defies me. I sometimes believe thinking of those of us demented, the soundness of our reasoning exceeds most who are involved peripherally in the support, care and treatment of AD.

What they say and what you get is different. When you found what you believed to be or thought to be is not at all what it was said to be, it, well, kind of shakes you!

When the help and support they say will be there never makes it one wonders what am I missing? I believed it to be and it is not!

So much in the AD world is not as it seems to be. Is this any different than politics, economics, religion?