Episode 6.43: Truth as a power-play to determine loyalty rather than an aid to experiments in life.

What we are prepared to think true and to believe, even what we think truth to be, when divorced from experiments in life and what it is best to believe in their interests, becomes all-too-easily no more than a means of determining whether we are loyal members of a tribe whose beliefs are arbitrary, mere indications of whether members are “sound”. Those who fail the test are variously ostracised, persecuted or, in extreme cases, burnt at the stake.