This has gotten an interesting batch of responses.

alanabit said,"I got the distinct impression that he is another modern guru". Funny. He doesn't look Guru-ish.

Now that I've gotten the cheap, stupid joke out of my system, Alan brought up a valid point. The article would appear to be trying to pass off self indulgence as enlightenment. Janie nailed it down nicely with her comment about comment about "truth to power". How we use or abuse the truth comes from and is part of how we use or abuse ourselves and other people. While most of us, here, have, at some point or another, made derisive cracks about diplomacy we understand that we almost always need to use some degree of it in most of our social and personal inter-actions.

More often than not being less than brutally honest actually aids clarity of thought and thus promotes more efficient and effective communication.

One is reminded of Douglas Adams' description of the fictitious Babel Fish.

"By effectively removing all barriers between different cultures and races," Adams wrote,"the poor Babel Fish has caused more and bloodier wars that any single force in the history of creation."

Stephen Lee