Well, folks, I decided to speak on chapter 7 of the book that you've just been introduced to.

And the title of that chapter is, truth and truthiness, speaking the truth in a world of lies.

The college student who made the statement when he said that truth, I mean, anything can become true if enough people believe it,

he was buying into the Marxist idea that truth is something not to be sought. It is constructed,

constructed by people in power wanting to hang on to power.

Every year the Miriam Webster Dictionary has a special word of the year.

2006 already.

Its word was truthiness.

Truthiness means it isn't really true, but it may have some value.

Could be partially true.

Much of it false.

Maybe totally false, but still has some,

excuse me, still has some value that we could call truthiness. Wow. Now, George Orwell,

in 1984, in that novel, you remember Winston goes into a room and is told that 2 plus 2 is equal to 5, sometimes it's

equal to 3, sometimes it's equal to both, and Winston struggles with this, but the novel ends

chillingly.

It says that Winston loved Big Brother.

Winston was able to live with what we call today

double-think, contradictory,

and even absurd ideas.

And so what we have to do is to recognize,

you know, parents are always asking me,

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