John Steinbeck Honesty

2000-2001 #6 ‘Truth is that to which the community ultimately settles down’ (Charles Peirce). Analyse and evaluate this claim. Truth can be the ultimate opiate, however that is not the case with every society. Communities often have their sense of truth altered, making every effort put towards achieving and maintaining that truth futile. These manipulations in mindsets are usually set in place by leaders who want people to follow their ideas so they could gain power, and the ideology isn’t seen by the community as manipulated until after that leader falls. Truth is a form of objectivity, yet people still think it is subjective to a person's morals, if truth was subjective then everyone would be right all the time even when they’re wrong,
The other Americans thought john steinbeck was a liar and falsified all of the information and experience he mentioned in the novel. In this case society deliberately denied the truth behind Steinbeck’s writing and they settled upon their conclusion that he was a liar for a good while after the book was published. Through this experience the opportunity to recognize the problems with the nation was shattered and society settled on the false truth that Steinbeck was a liar. Objectively it is known that Steinbeck was telling the truth because he investigated the lower class before writing The Grapes of Wrath but the rest of the Americans choose to deem the authenticity of his writing subjective even though it wasn’t. This is yet another case where society settled on information that is not the
The false truth that America is the greatest nation on earth can be found to come from our childhood, as children Americans are raised to be diehard patriots, we even make them pledge to the flag every single day. But our nation suffers from the same problems other countries such as our problems with racism, poverty, or even the recession. Objectively there is no evidence to show that America is the greatest nation on earth it’s all subjective to the person’s schema, an American veteran almost always will defend the statement but anyone who sees that Donald Trump is still a presidential candidate may put that statement under the same category with the statement “the earth is flat”. Our nation has taken on the job of manipulating the American people's judgement, with every war we win we automatically assume that the other team was wrong when in all actuality they may have been right but since they were weaker than us they got eliminated. The American people choose to sit on a throne of lies and they’re settled there because they believe that the false truth is America is the greatest country on