The phrase became famous as yelled onscreen by Jack Nicholson as Col. Jessup in the movie A Few Good Men: You can’t handle the truth! Truer words (though heavily scripted) have probably never been spoken. Whereas Col. Jessup may have suffered from paranoid megalomania, most of the rest of us suffer from simple denial, or [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Truth Telling
Posted: February 27, 2012 in Cinema, Economics, Environment, Industrial Collapse, Science1
Over time, I’ve come to expect that every time I hatch a new idea, often extrapolated from something read or learned, there is almost always an academic or philosopher who wrote a book about the same idea a decade or more ago. Rarely, I get to an idea first and the inevitable book postdates my [...]
At the outset of The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist disclaims a number of things the book is not about but in the course of the book goes after the very things he disclaims with characteristic depth and penetration. One is the issue of handedness; another is the nature of consciousness. He also circles [...]
