Optics

Knowing truth is much more than having information. Knowing considers the content beyond the appearance. We use words that are distinct and likely make you think about the context. Optics: the aspects of an action, policy, practice or decision that affect perception or response.1  In what we refer to as the post-Information Age, Truth and Information are often at odds with perception. While we have always had an element of falseness in the information before us, in the Digital Age the volume of untruth has become overwhelming. While some untruth is error in interpreting facts, more volume in today’s world is purposely designed to be either misinformation to influence or blatant  disinformation to deceive.

Whether rooted in misunderstanding observations or crafting narratives to mislead or distort, information is not necessarily Truth. While there may have been a time when propagation of Truth was a high goal, manipulation of information and the presentation of false narratives is now both more prevalent and more likely to be cloaked in the appearance of truth.

In the following five sections, we give articles that present accurate, verifiable Truth. The accuracy is without bias and without intent other than to give you a basis upon which to make your own determinations of Truth with some sort of foundation rather than opinion.

1  “Optics.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/optics. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

The following links are to sections relevant to perception through historical viewpoints.
Jungle Temple of the Incas

KINGDOMS

An overview of the timeline of history and summaries of major Kingdoms which have impacted history through contributions or conquest. Perspectives possibly forgotten since your first educational years.

To Kingdoms >
two young boys changing bobbins in mill circa 1909

ECONOMICS

Civilizations tend to progress through stages of development going from basics to complex systems. This is a light overview into the growth of societies from hunter-gatherer to beyond the post-industrial age of today.

To Economics >
Indian Railways train with hanger-ons everywhere

TRANSPORT

The growth of a society is either limited or encouraged by the means of movement of people, goods and services from one region to another. How you "get there," your mobility, tends to measure the ease of change.

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couple on loveseat with gentleman reading to lady

COMMUNICATE

From one-to-one, face-to-face conversation with heralds, minstrels, cannon fire, telegraphy, radio, television and then the vast expressions of the digital age, communication changes both in means and clarity.

To Communicate >
painting American Progress, 1872, John Gast, Library of Congress ppmsca.09855

TRAITS

A look at some of the particular mindsets which have typified certain cultures and their propensity for growth either culturally or in physical area of influence. Case study in justification of the American way.

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