More fun with "Perception is Reality." (9/10ths good:)

To use the test of perception, I ask the question "does this appear..."

"It's not WHAT you know, it's WHO you know!"
Hmmm... he doesn't _appear_ to know anything, but then he doesn't _appear_ to know anyone IMPORTANT either: can you REALLY tell, just by _looking_?

"Words have meaning!"
Do words _appear_ to have meaning? You simply cannot evaluate them superficially. This pithy saying is demonstrably not TRITE!

"Location, Location, Location!"
Does it _appear_ to be a good location?

"It's the Economy, stupid!"
Does it appear to be the economy?

"Appearances can be deceiving!"
Do these appearances _appear_ to be deceiving?
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From this experiment, I guess I conclude that the phrase "Perception is Reality," makes a test of relevance to an individual. If his perception is superficial, an individual will be satisfied with superficial appearances. Since we ALL specialize in one way or another, ANY _large_ audience will be satisfied with a superficial explanation of a problem of even Byzantine complexity, as long as the subject is not one in which they _specialize_.

Verbal "sleight of hand," (slight of mouth?) becomes necessary for Politicians to justify even GOOD decisions when they are counter-intuitive. If incompetents mistake the exigency of "sleight of hand," for a license to lie, they will become subject to the oldest Political truism I know.

I attribute Abraham Lincoln (Honest Abe,) and I misquote for humor.

"You can keep ALL the people happy _some_ of the time, and you can keep _some_ of the people happy ALL of the time, but you can't keep ALL the people happy ALL the time!"

"Now is the winter of our discontent!" - Winston Churchill.