The Truth sets us free
No.33
At a time of Geopolitical crisis and domestic political noise, signalling becomes a major concern of governments. There is also a hermeneutics of signalling as well. Beware of false ones!
From ancient times, people have told sea stories of giant fish, as large as islands that have swallowed ships. Any swept inside take refuge in those wrecks. Pinocchio, Baron Munchausen and Lucian's A True Story all offer variants of this tale. The Book of Jonah belongs to this class as well. Each of these stories is concerned with the truth in some way, no matter how fantastical they get. Inside the Leviathans of our age, are the wrecked careers of politicians, their lies and ideologies the hulks we are reduced to living in ? Is Boris Johnson a prison hulk of lies the UK is trapped in ?
The UK local government elections on 5 May produced uncomfortable yet indecisive results all round. It was both a vote on Johnson and not a vote on Johnson.
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