"Truth" was one of those words that people tended to avoid in polite company. There was nothing actually wrong with it, certainly no formal policies against it as word or concept. But it carried the same weight as mentioning a dead relative; a loved one lost at sea, or dead to a terrible, grisly accident.The truth, most felt, died in the mid-21st century. No one set out to kill the truth, to deliberately murder it. Its death was largely...