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Always Question Authority 
An affable slogan but the “truth” is neither easy nor clear nor, apparently, ever settled. Nietzsche would have it that the measure of what is true is whether or not it is life-affirming or life-promoting. In other words, something untrue could be better than a truth if it better enhanced life. Self-delusion is good? Whatever works? Maybe. People of all stripes practice this everyday by elevating myths to truth. I say “truth” is negotiated over time and renegotiated. I thought the foundations of chattel slavery had been thoroughly shown to be based on lies. Listening to many today, it seems not. Same with the Vietnam War. I thought that too had been shown to be based on lies but the 2004 presidential election became, for many, a revisiting of the Vietnam War with a rebirth of the war hawk notion that we simply should have doubled down and withdrawal was a show of cowardice.