In Truism 33, Jenny Holzer created a Web event that used truisms as a way to un- derstand contemporary culture. Confronted by blinking, changing “truisms,” Web visitors select a conceptual category—for example, belief and change—and then get to vote via checkboxes. A cumulating total shows the fate of the various truisms. Here is a sample of the sayings on “belief”: “a little knowledge can go a long way; a lot of professionals are crackpots; absolute submission can be a form of freedom.”