Truth is tricky to understand for many because we are accustomed to hearing things that are nearly true, half-true, and utterly true in an ocean of falsehoods.
Not surprisingly, the internet is rife with trolls and phone scammer schemes hacking identities – happily cheating us at every turn. We become more aware of the need to keep private which seems the opposite of what one might desire in an open-to-all environment of social media and googling for every piece of fact or fiction you could imagine. The dotted lines between truth, half-truth and outright fabrication are ubiquitous.
Partial doses are hard to distinguish from lies and salesman’s boasts. Truth in advertising seems like an oxymoron, which is not a moron named Oxy, but it might as well be.