Tell the Truth

"Tell the truth."
Huh? "Tell" means use symbols, manipulate them, utter (or record) speech.
Incompatibly, "truth" symbolizes the actuality, the raw territory: that which Korzybski (Bateson, pk ....) insist is unutterable.Make the map BE the territory. Impossible. A fools errand.
Exactly the kind of instruction a kleptocracy issues so irresponsibly, so destructively: to keep us all off balance: and the truth far from our apprehension.

Charitably, we interpret "Tell the truth" to mean "Don’t lie." Don’t knowingly misrepresent facts, events, interpretations.
But carry it to its absurd implications: imagine the mortal demanding of the god, "Use my shaggy finite symbols to inform me about infinities, the cosmos: ... all time, all universes, all forms of being: and non-being. Convey to me your essence: and the essences of all the meta-essences beyond you."
Why turn the mortal into a pillar of salt? The mortal already is a pillar of salt.

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Information "is" any difference that makes a difference; macroinformation "is" any and all of the differences between the data and the information.

Simplifying my
already simple
spectrum of information:

I0 The possibility of difference Informational universe

I1 Any difference that makes a difference Information, including data

In N dimensional differences Macroinformation

To master information rather than be its victim existential distinctions must be plumbed at depths not supported by the culture. Get further than an inch and no bureaucrat, no priest of the kleptocracy, will understand you: or permit you to talk unimpeded.

For the half-dozen years in which I’ve been developing my theory of Macroinformation I’ve harked to one of the complex images in Shakespeare that first made me lust to develop such a theory: "salad days." The data seems simple; the information is more complex than scholarship since the early 1600s has exhausted. I also added examples where key data is implicit rather than explicit: the tonic to the chord chanted by "nyah-nyah"; the "O" in the joke "Who’s Bob?" ... Today an example I’ve dealt with at Knatz.com, but not yet at Mi.org, shoves itself upward, demanding inclusion at the top:Tell the TruthReview the opening remarks.

The common phrase -- tell the truth -- is an oxymoron: of a type similar to "Jesus Christ": contradictions built-in.Jesus is a name; Christ is a title: Jesus is a man; Christ is a God: Jesus is natural; Christ is magical ...
"Tell" means utter by symbols, by the patterning of language; the "truth" is the actuality. The imperative to tell the truth demands an act which is impossible: to make the map BE the territory.