THE EYES HAVE IT

There is incredible presumption in doing this ~~

Taking the liberty of taking up space in your in-box with a string of words and a series of ideas totally uninvited. This Internet is of course the capitol city of such presumption, for every minute of very day it's glutted by tens of millions of messages just like this one. As are also the pages in newspapers and the minutes in broadcasts.

Plato described humanity as living in a cave seeing only the shadows from the real world outside, He argued that if someone ever escaped the cave and returned to tell everyone the truth, they would think him insane and put him to death.

Haven't we all witnessed this in our own world? Someone -- teacher, reporter, whistle-blower -- has escaped from the delusions of their world and reported back a discomforting reality. Teachers have been fired, reporters have been scoffed, and whistle-blowers have been bought off.

In the whirlwind of such events, what remains is the same question Pilate rhetorically asked Jesus: "What is truth?" The question remains essentially unanswered 2000 years later. Essentially because truth is so often something behind the eyes. Neither the shadows in our cave, nor the objects outside. Our own developed perceptions and our own evolved priorities become the only truth we believe enough to act upon.

This makes for a planet of 6 billion truths. Little reason to pretend any 1 pair of eyes is seeing the truth any better than the other 5,000,000,099. How's your eyesight these days...?