Mr. Koppel, who was always fair and friendly to me when I appeared on his program, correctly states: "democracy depends on facts." The problem is that too many of us can't agree on the facts because the standard by which truth was once measured has disappeared in our age of relativity. It is an Alice in Wonderland age in which Humpty Dumpty is the prophet: "'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'"