Saturday, October 24, 2020

The Epistemology of Lies - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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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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