Among all the discussion about the accuracy of 's tell-all memoir, Spare, I was struck by one quote from him in the book that Harry's ghost writer, J. R. Moehringer, later tweeted: '...there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts'.
It's the dismissive phrase 'so-called' that gets me. The strong suggestion, of course, is that truth, reality, facts and objectivity aren't important. Yet these things are the cornerstone of enlightenment and the bedrock of science.
This is all part of a troubling idea that has taken root in modern society, namely that the subjective belief of an individual trumps, or is at least as valid as, provable facts.
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