Episode 3.13: Truth as the best we can do right now. Legitimate authority and illegitimate bullying.

We always have to decide what we think is true, and legitimate authority based upon evolving social practice helps us in those decisions. But legitimate authority easily transforms into suffocating authority and illegitimate bullying which compromise our right and ability to decide for ourselves. We change our view of truth depending on what seems most likely to work whether we acknowledge it or not, and so we should. We don’t make the truth by believing it, but belief is the only way to access what is true. The changes we make to our collective and personal beliefs govern how our understanding evolves.