- Philosophy: The truth will set us free, so long as we remember to challenge it. An interview with the physicist David Deutsch. http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/ingenious-david-deutsch 46 comments philosophy
- Many Americans know that the US is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy elite and corporate-collaborator govt officials. However, the truth of such tyranny is not enough to set most of us free to take action. http://www.truth-out.org/tenfold-path-guts-solidarity-and-defeat-corporate-elite/1305062921 57 comments politics
- Are Americans Too Broken for the Truth to Set Us Free? "Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further?" http://www.counterpunch.org/levine12042009.html 3 comments politics
- It’s an unquestioned optimism that “the truth will set you free”. But what if knowledge brings suffering and torment? Questioning our optimism that wisdom makes us happy is necessary to really grapple with what sort of reality we might live in. https://www.the-pamphlet.com/articles/unspeakably-awful 49 comments philosophy