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I grew up believing that the "truth" of a matter really existed and that, in the words of the immortal John Keats, that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,–that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." (See below for Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn).
Well, to some, Keats is just one more dead, white man. Today, the intellectual elite and their followers believe that truth does not exist; that there are many truths and isms; that everything is relative, Rashomon-like; that people have different points of view and that all such views are "equal."
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