Be that as it may, you should read the Wikipedia article on Art Bell for the links alone. Very often I find Wikipedia helpful in providing a digest-version of complicated issues, but this particular article demonstrates what's just under the floorboards of the Wikipedia living room. It's a good gut-check for those who think that the free flow of information always provides access to Truth. Just to be clear, I think that free speech does always lead us back to the truth even when someone uses that freedom to spread lies -- you just have to be able to see the relationship of truth to the falsehoods to get from here to there.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
[$] At right angles with experience
I was cracking on my favorite internet whipping boy (C-Train Jack Russell), when I came across a link at Wikipedia for Art Bell. If you don't know who Art Bell is, you sould read up on him as he may have been the second-most popular radio host of the 1990's.
Be that as it may, you should read the Wikipedia article on Art Bell for the links alone. Very often I find Wikipedia helpful in providing a digest-version of complicated issues, but this particular article demonstrates what's just under the floorboards of the Wikipedia living room. It's a good gut-check for those who think that the free flow of information always provides access to Truth. Just to be clear, I think that free speech does always lead us back to the truth even when someone uses that freedom to spread lies -- you just have to be able to see the relationship of truth to the falsehoods to get from here to there.
Be that as it may, you should read the Wikipedia article on Art Bell for the links alone. Very often I find Wikipedia helpful in providing a digest-version of complicated issues, but this particular article demonstrates what's just under the floorboards of the Wikipedia living room. It's a good gut-check for those who think that the free flow of information always provides access to Truth. Just to be clear, I think that free speech does always lead us back to the truth even when someone uses that freedom to spread lies -- you just have to be able to see the relationship of truth to the falsehoods to get from here to there.
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