The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.
Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.
Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.
Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.
