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September 23 - October 11, 2021
Without a consensus reality, he argued, “there can be no argument; the necessary minimum of agreement cannot be reached.”
“It seems to me very important to realize that we have been wrong, and say so. Most people nowadays, when their predictions are falsified, just impudently claim that they have been justified, and squeeze the facts accordingly
As he told Woodcock: “no one should be persecuted for expressing his opinions, however anti-social, & no political organisation suppressed, unless it can be shown that there is a substantial threat to the stability of the state.”
Shortly before Christmas, he succumbed to medical advice, travelling to Hairmyres hospital in East Kilbride, near Glasgow, to seek treatment.
It is truly Orwellian that the phrase “fake news” has been turned on its head by Trump and his fellow authoritarians to describe real news that is not to their liking, while flagrant lies become “alternative facts.”
“The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants,” he says. “It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time.”
“Every lie incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”
