Nice quote
Now, chastened by our modern knowledge of the limitations of knowledge, of reason, of ourselves, we know that those bright certainties are not as certain or as real as we once thought. But we’ve spent our time mourning, in depression and cynicism and irony, and we’ve all been taught that, if truth is a slippery and uncertain thing, lies are very real.
Mark Bernstein, from his series on NeoVictorian Computing, specifically part 3, Age of Heroes.