>Of course we don't have access to the truth, only its
>afterimages. But is the problem that there is just too
>much of a 'fact soup'; facts, words and images
>floating around without structure, so that we tend to
>grab for what is close to us: personality and phrases
>with immediate resonance. We make 'a' sense, but it is
>the wrong sense.
>
>Simon
Well, that's deliberate. Random facts with all meaning or pattern or causal relations suppressed. Never mind theories. Sometimes I think that's the essence of NPR news--they're endlessly suprised. It's almost comic sometimes, as they report US-created or US-backed massacre number 941 with the same slight hurt and disbelief with which they reported massacre number 237 or massacre number 19. It's really a wonder their heads don't explode.
Jenny Brown