I don't buy it. Ms. Mansfield makes a distinction between "facts" and "truth". She says there is a "factual truth" and an "emotional truth", and that "psychologists tell us" that most of us make (most? all?) our decisions based on "feelings". Do we then need to call it "emotional" truth? Let's leave out the "truth part, and admit those decisions have little fact or truth, but only the strength of our emotions, and as such are apt often to go badly wrong; we see the results in the pages of our newspapers every day. "Emotional truth" led to witch burnings, the murders of heretics in inquisitions, the massacres and enslavement of peoples we "felt" were subhuman, and today, the incorrect "emotional truth" that persons with dark skin, another religion, or both, are murderers at the very least.

Facts can be manipulated; we call that "lying". "Emotional truth", though it be deplorable bigotry, can be used by a strong man to gain and keep power at the expense of his sad mob of losers.