re: #147 allegro

It’s not about not understanding. Or even about lying.

It’s about declaring something else true so it’s unclear what the truth is. And eventually, given opportunity, using power and influence to make an advantageous counterfactual account “true.”

If you put no value on epistemology, if your only standard of validity is your intensity of belief, then you can declare something and make it be true.

This is really what underlies declarations like Orwell about the present controlling the past.