By The Usual Reckoning, The Worst Books

A Guilty System Recognizes No Innocents.

Truth, I Have Learned, Differs For Everybody. Just As No Two People Ever See A Rainbow In Exactly The Same Place - And Yet Both Most Certainly See It, While The Person Seemingly Standing Right Underneath It Does Not See It At All - So Truth Is A Question Of Where One Stands, And The Direction One Is Looking In At The Time.

Oh, They Never Lie. They Dissemble, Evade, Prevaricate, Confound, Confuse, Distract, Obscure, Subtly Misrepresent And Willfully Misunderstand With What Often Appears To Be A Positively Gleeful Relish And Are Generally Perfectly Capable Of Contriving To Give One An Utterly Unambiguous Impression Of Their Future Course Of Action While In Fact Intending To Do Exactly The Opposite, But They Never Lie. Perish The Thought.

Even Galaxy-spanning Anarchist Utopias Of Stupefying Full-spectrum Civilisational Power Have Turf Wars Within Their Unacknowledged Militaries.

Political Correctness Is What Right-wing Bigots Call What Everybody Else Calls Being Polite