Balderdash

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.” Mark Twain

You might assume that today’s screed is going to be political in nature—now that we have several years of fake news under our belts. You would be wrong.

I think it’s more about the nature of truth.

But I could be wrong.

The problem, of course, is that there are so many more untruths than possible truths.

The ancient Greeks were not convinced that truth wa…