Is the truth still important to you?

I like quotes, but I steer clear of them. They are too packaged, and they define you thinking too easily. But these two concern spin and so are relevant, and, at least the second one helped me understand something very important, and very frightening, about current politics and society. Or, put another way: never mind the truth, seek the power.

“No matter how cynical you become, it is never enough to keep up.” Lily Tomlin

“… Princeton academic Harry Frankfurt’s distinction between lying and bullshit: a liar still cares about the truth, a bullshitter does not.”

“Too much cynicism is never enough” by Ron Ceberona. In Canberra Times, 10 Sept 2005, Panorama, p. 15. Review of the book Your call is important to us: the truth about bullshit / Laura Penny.