Zager And Evans "In The Year 2525" - Truther music from 1969

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is what's there now, that "they" accept as a "truther" definintion: 1) (US, colloquial) Someone who tells the truth. 2) (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone who believes that the US government was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. 3) By extension, a conspiracy theorist who does not believe the accepted story about some significant event, fact, etc.

If I remember I'll try to change it every Ides of March.

I prefer "seeks and shares the truth" to "tells the truth" (as they see it), but whatever. #2 is vague, incomplete, and not entirely accurate. And #3 is similiarly limited, omitting skepticism of authority, including the media.

Not everyone on SaidIt is a "truther" and they don't need to be, but most know all of these limited definitions and their unspoken expanded concepts.

Which one(s) don't you like?

What term would you prefer?

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a long word that doesn't roll off the tongue easily. Neither does "Anticorruptioner music".

I used to say SaidIt was for truthers or whatever. Now I say SaidIt leans against corruption, rather than left or right. The latter part optional. That's because you gave me a better blanket word that works. You haven't offered me an alternative.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

truth-seeking?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's the one I prefer over all others.

But like anti-corruption it doesn't really translate or cover the spectrum. "Truth-seeking music" doesn't jive well either. That's also partly why, so far as I know, I coined "Trutherism".

There's a "Truth-Seeker" YouTube channel that has a guy reading and reviewing news. It's much like how Zoon Politikon and others do it, but she does more and we see her face half the time. They're certainly on target 99% of the time and they're very good, getting better incrementally, but not great (yet). I haven't watched in about 8 months when I did a big cut-back. Everytime I hear or think "truth-seeker" I think of his alias and that show. I wouldn't say it's ruined the word, but because his low-budget daily news review show, on very good content, but too long winded and scattered with amateur random things - the word is slightly tainted and less "fresh".

On a plus note, he's done web projects and may be receptive to collaborating on stuff. I'm gonna reach out to him, as I've done with others, to see if we might cross over fans and resources.

Actually, turns out there's a FUCKTONNE of them : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=truthseeker

And I'd forgotten Jesus is the Truth and the Light and the Way so there's a lot of that too.

God damn!!! There are so many you'd think it was a psyop. Or maybe this truth thing is a rare commodity and everyone is after it. I wonder if there are as many "Gold-Digger"s as there are "Truth-Seeker"s?

Dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens and I didn't even reach the end of them.

So I actually bothered to look in my list of 987 subscribed channels and he's #1 as "#SeekingTheTruth" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHrDpTVL9S0h91u9UCPgVbA

I always get him mixed up with the Aussie Ed and his channel, "The Outer Light" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnrE7PkiyVPP5ZTMqo3QW-Q He's also got "The Outer Dark" which was rarely used and apparently "Esoteric Detective".

I've posted a comment invite to each, whether they notice or not is another thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdqXnyoB7yg&lc=Ugynwq0MI4A2G66qsIF4AaABAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-UVZx6fOTo&lc=Ugyp3oJZvrgetTI6e3h4AaABAg