%) No longer allowed for a fact to get into the act
Aren’t facts just too complicated, taking too much time & effort to uncover & verify? Do I need anyone to tell me what MY facts should be? Surely, fairer & easier for each of us just to make them up as we need them:
Read about them in the tabloids
plied by ‘anything goes’ hacks
Elsewhere commonly called factoids
dressed up as we need them ‘facts’
The Net thrills in profligacy
of excitement refulgent
Be it doubtful efficacy
enabling those indulgent
Who’s got guts to be resolute
sort out all that’s annoying
in these our sweet times dissolute
brimmed with the innate, cloying?
Hence we spill what pops into mind
as insight of reflected kind!
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-factoid = an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact
-facts = “Factual evidence, since it is an impediment to what we desire, is banished.” – Chris Hedge
-profligacy = shameless dissoluteness; reckless extravagance
-refulgent = shining brightly; radiant
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