Thursday, March 10, 2011

Truth Has No Agenda

Seeking truth is a good place to start. In the information age, there is plenty of fraudulent information we have to sift through. There is plenty of information that seems like it is true. Studies, science, historical events, entertainment and religion are all fed to us with a "spin."

Truth stands on it's own. One has to seek it out. It does not come to us in most cases. One marker of truth is that it has no agenda. When discovered there are usually outcomes that can be beneficial to the discoverers. Take Tesla for example. When he discovered alternating current, and invented was of generating it and distributing it he was working for GE. Edison did not want to look foolish, or lose market share. In short he felt threatened by Tesla's safer, more efficient truth.

This illustrates that truth does compete. Truth is still truth though, and it does not have and end it is angling for.

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