Facing our reality - Honesty the only policy we can afford

One man’s truth is another’s delusion.

One man’s certainty is another man’s deep, dark void of doubt. Different people believe different, conflicting things, each advancing their position as an absolute. Sometimes people get so swept away by high ideals, by ideals so movingly powerful that they make honest, essential objectivity more than difficult.

Over the last five years, since our economy was destroyed, we’ve had analysis after analysis, strident declaration after strident declaration and, if there was a market for delusion, more than enough of it to fund a spectacular and more or less immediate recovery.