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The Epistemology of Lies
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
-Father Zossima in The Brothers
Karamazov
The
problem is not in detecting a lie
But
in detecting that which is not a lie
In
a fallen world in which snakes twist and writhe
Around
the golden apples of our youth
Through
our garden they slither, shiny and smooth
And
at first softly, susurrantly, soothingly
Assuring
us that that we don’t know what we know
That
we should trust them, follow them, obey them
And
if we pause to think, they bully us all -
And
one by one the golden apples fall
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