All my life I watched the best liar or best liars win the elections, build the most expensive churches or become the most lauded pundits. Only the voice of humor or satire seemed to be telling the truth to me.

Slowly I discovered the best truth tellers. Many of them had to keep their head down in this small town mass society. Slowly I saw their numbers grow. With each Purlitzer and Nobel Prize I grew more hopeful that the most deserving would be heard, heeded and respected.

Then a dark age spread across my country as hope and enlightenment grew darker with each passing war of attrition and despondency.

The short term heros are invariably the best liars. The greatest truth tellers give hope to long run victories and solutions. We are still asked to choose between great liars of powerful emotions and schemes and the meek truth tellers.

There is a place for both the short term liar and the long term truth teller but the greatest truth tellers are the only heros that earn my respect. Some do it with science and some do it with art.
Some do it naturally because they have a good heart.