Quote Originally Posted by Big D
I think it's got a lot to do that, and with "the unknowability of absolute truth", or the subjectivity of each person's perception of reality - since basically everything we see, think, feel, read, experience etc is influenced, in our thoughts, by cultural factors and constructs.

This quote, an excerpt from this, was brought up in my jurisprudence class during a discussion of modernism, structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism.
Personally, I've always felt that perception is always distorted in the human mind. Think about it. The brain is an imperfect organism. It mutates, forgets and invents memories. We only "see" a small percentage of visual spectrum, the same applies on the aural spectrum too. We can "pick up" an incredible amount of data without realising it, but our consciousness, influenced by culture, context and an imperfect brain, has to "sort through" all this information, make it manageable.

So, considering all this, truly what can we believe in? Is seeing truly believing? Or as Big D puts, is absolute truth (if there is such a thing) unknowable to our senses and perceptions?