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Originally posted by Moneyguy1
No, dd..education and intelligence should be used to further the truth, not warp it. Of course, Goebbels would disagree.
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Truth? Whose truth? Based on what? Political truths? Social truths? There's a big bad word that hovers in the back of all you say is "truth" and that's subjectivity.
Part of what education is clearly supposed to instill is the ability to decipher bits and pieces of a subject for a person's own intellectual advancement. Intellect is merely the means to convey education.
In these political discussions, it's more than apparent given the polarity that one person's truth is distinctly another person's lie, so really, why discuss the subject of Ben Stein, or for that matter, Nelson Mandela, Ghandi or even Goebbels (low-hanging fruit there...
) as with each one there will always be detractors saying "he (or she) isn't advancing truth..."