I'm not understanding the distinction between what truth has become and what truth is. Outside of mathematics and other tautological systems that support themselves by definition (hence it is true that there can be no such thing as a round square), truth is always going to be subjective. To observe a thing is to see it's truth, but observations are so personal because they are based on perspective (the three components of perspective being location, scale, and past experience). To convey what we think is the truth means imparting our perspective, which can never be exactly the same as someone else's.
Perhaps the simple act of observing reveals truth, or what it is. But any attempt to share brings in perception and thus changes the observation ino what the truth has become. It does beg the question of whether or not we can observe without filters. I think it can be done with practice and discipline.
A more modern read for those that like this type of perspective is Joan Didion, The White Album. Here is a quote from JD:
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writer, by the imposition of a narrative line on disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” – Joan Didion, The White Album.
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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.
"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley
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