Diane Kimura

Here's the new NPR CEO Katherine Maher (and former chief executive of Wikipedia) explaining that "the truth" is an outdated concept.

Everyone can have their own truth:

"Perhaps, for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth, and seeking to convince others of the truth, might not be the right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that’s getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done. Now, that is not to say that the truth does not exist, nor is it to say that the truth isn't important. Clearly, the search for the truth has led us to do great things, to learn great things. But I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things we could all acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles of the human experience and all forms of culture is because we acknowledge that there are many different truths."

- Katherine Maher, new CEO of NPR

Tim adds:

The Truth is not a democratic system. Something is true or false. This kind of relativism is at the very heart of everything wrong with Western society.

And this illustrates plainly what is wrong with our current incestuous corporate system. These people move from corporation to corporation carrying the same intellectual plagues from one businessto another. How does being CEO of Wikipedia (a crowd-sourced encyclopedia) qualify her to run NPR? Once you get inside at one place you can go anywhere and get top paying jobs and make the same mistakes over and over and never pay the price. They show up, infect the corporation with their idiotic ideas, then move on. Like a smallpox outbreak. And amazingly performance doesn't enter into it.

Civilization is crumbling in no small part because corporate America has sold it's soul and gleefully embraced morons like this woman.

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