[Peace-discuss] Bellicose rhetoric???

[E. Wayne Johnson]

John W. wrote:
>
>
>     Chomsky says that he differs with his Quaker friends who recommend
>     telling truth
>     to power.  Power already knows the truth, he says, and tries to
>     cover it up. 
>
>
> This is true.  Personally, I think it's often more useful to speak 
> lies to (those in) power.  But of course you have to figure out what 
> you want to accomplish with your lies.

One reason that it _Can_ be useful to speak the truth to those in power 
is that
they are at times subject to blind spots from which they can recover if 
pointed out by
the word fitly spoken.






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