The Truth, the Truth and the Truth

So, sometimes the written word is not exactly the best way to convey things.  This is going to be unusually deep for me.  i'll get to the point - the truth is something that should be a universal Boolean true or false, but things in life are rarely that obvious. 

Truth can be an absolute - like a true/false test based off of accepted facts (which are true because they are universally held - even if they're false).  The truth can be a Lionel Hutzian "truth" which is more along the lines of statements based on truth but largely distortion (much like movies "based off a true story").  The other truth in the title may have been extraneous, or is it? 

A big potential problem occurs when perception = reality.  That is to say that perception is accepted as reality.  In this scenario you can have all kinds of willful distortion.  Politics and advertising live in an intersection between Lionel Hutz and perception = reality.  In that instance, the real reality is largely overlooked.  Why?  Because they want you to believe what they say is reality - so they can make you do or believe something. 

This could be something like 10 million people go to sleep tonight hungry - it may be factually correct, but it is lacking context.  In a country of 310 million people, 10 million is more acceptable than a smaller country (say 50 million population). 

Then the whole question comes up about what level of lying is acceptable in a given situation.  If you had a wife and she asked you if a dress makes her look fat answering the affirmative is an evolutionarily stupid response (assuming you want to be given the option to ever mate again).  Some times the questions themselves are badly worded and a Boolean answer would be grossly misleading.  i guess that depends on what the meaning of "the" is. 

After all, as i saw in some show on cable that i don't watch... "the best way to convince someone that you're not lying is to tell them you are". 

Do i sense a segue into another series of posts.  My psychotic powers give me the answer - "reply hazy try again".