Does Truth Mean : Being Up-To-Date?

 maybe a hundred years from now, when facebook will have its own porn profiles, and public intellectuals will be UFC fighters, maybe then north korea will be considered the ultimate holiday package for those disillusioned with capitalism-  for bohemians, artists, hipsters, and poets. maybe theres something about being on a screen that sucks out life from humanity, something about media itself- especially when coupled with the liberal vision of individualism and self-promotion. maybe the amish have got it right. praise god, farm your land, drink water from the stream, plant your own vegetables. but of course, you cant think that way. we dont want any luddites - anyone who prevents civiliation from progressing must be burned at the stake-  no. modern medicine, refrigerators, airconditioning, vr headsets- what would we do without those things. no, you cant look back. even the source of your opinions and values, all your old friends that you read in paperback, the roald dahls, the jrr tolkiens, the dostoevskys, the orwells, the borges, the kafkas, the bible -before the internet came along and tunred them into digital pap- all those old friends are no more true than the other type of truth, the truth of progress. because what is the defintion of truth nowadays? truth means being up-to-date. theres is nothing worse for th emodern man thean not being upttodate on current affairs, than not knowing what the latest views on things are, not having watched the latest debate among public intellectuals, than not having the most objective viewpoitn, than not crawling to the top of the information ladder and having an unimpeded viewpoint of those troglodytes living in caves.


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