The Strategy of Truth

The word “strategy” is often used to describe the means by which people pursue their purposes. We hear of the strategy of attaining all manner of objectives – sometimes by deception. But “the strategy of truth” is most effective. The strategy of falsehood, so widely used in the world, has one great weakness which always ultimately causes its collapse. Its fatal weakness is that every falsehood must continually be explained and supported by other falsehoods. If any man or any group of men set about to establish one lie they must fabricate other lies to support it, and more and more lies demand more and more lies; and soon the whole pattern becomes so complex that discrepancies appear faster than explanations can be offered, and the whole false fabric falls. With all the confusion of purpose and counter purpose, of opinion and counter opinion, the question is often asked, “What can we believe?” There is only one answer: the only thing we can believe is truth. No generation can afford to believe anything which does not check with confirmed facts and figures, and with the laws and realities of life. There never was and never will be any man or any combination of men smart enough to support any falsehood permanently, no matter how clever the strategy is or how ingeniously falsehood is supported with further falsehood. The strategy of truth is the only strategy tat may be counted on for safety and strength, for peace and progress, and for salvation itself. Men must demand and expect and receive and accept truth – and be prepared to face facts. There is no safety in falsehood, no assurance without facts.