I’m between cases at the moment, so this will have to be quick.<\/p>\n
Music on this morning’s commute included Depeche Mode’s\u00c2\u00a0“Policy of\u00c2\u00a0Truth<\/a>“. Snippet (but take a look at the rest of the lyrics — they’re good):<\/p>\n You had something to hide It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just time to pay the price Here’s the question: who out there hasn’t<\/em> screwed this one up? — Hasn’t blurted out the truth when by any conception of morals, ethics, or reason, the lie was the only correct response?<\/p>\n But we never speak the truth during the calm times. Only when the blood is up. And that reminded me of the Psych 101 concept of state-dependent memory: you recall things better if you’re in the same state (drunk, caffeine-toxic, depressed, in love) as when you learned them. Maybe I’ll get Dave Munger over here to comment. For all I know, state-dependent memory has been debunked.<\/p>\n My next leap of thought brought me to the idea of state-dependent truth. What if some things are only<\/em> true during the height of anger? I’m not talking about hurtful lies, but hurtful truths blurted mid-argument. How many people revisit these things once everything cools down?<\/p>\n Not that any of this applies to me. I’m just sayin’.<\/p>\n Tonight, if I’m still in the mood for it:<\/p>\n The sadomasochistic psychodrama of swimming lessons<\/strong><\/p>\n D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m between cases at the moment, so this will have to be quick. Music on this morning’s commute included Depeche Mode’s\u00c2\u00a0“Policy of\u00c2\u00a0Truth“. Snippet (but take a look at the rest of the lyrics — they’re good): You had something to hide Should have hidden it, shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not satisfied With what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being… Continue Reading State-dependent truth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-such-as-it-is","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShould have hidden it, shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you
\nNow you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not satisfied
\nWith what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re being put through<\/p>\n
\nFor not listening to advice
\nAnd deciding in your youth
\nOn the policy of truth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n