On Those Who Diminish Truth, Part I

There seems to be an excess of people who question the validity of truth, from post-modern professors teaching crap, to poisoned and indoctrinated youth. Some claim that objective truth can’t exist, or if it does, it can never be known, others will prattle on about ‘my truth,’ as if they can define it on their own. They all say we live in a ‘post-fact’ world, and the media filth seem to agree, reporting any gossip that they hear if it might help the cause that they cheerlead. I think the effects of ignoring truth should be quite apparent to everyone, some ignored hard truths in 2016, then lost their damn minds when they heard truth won. Now that is just a recent example, a thousand others you could come up with, but the question remains, why hide from truth? What could compel a person to do this? One reason, I think, is obvious enough, it’s the eternal question of ego, we feel we’re better when we think we’re right, and to surrender that hurts like a blow. But when it comes to truth versus ego, I think it is complicated these days by how politics become identity, and functions now like a substitute faith. Things stop being about what works best, which people can measure objectively, starts being about which tribe you promote, which means disagreement is ‘heresy.’ Which means when truth runs counter to their claims, it is a question of little debate, most would lie if it maintained their ego, the base desire to feel that we’re great. This is very clear with the welfare state, we’ve known for years it causes dependence, that there’s no incentive to go and work when your being given dollars and cents. But when you point this out, folks get angry, and start bellowing, “You hate poor people!” They’d rather folks starve so they can feel good, then to understand the hard truth in full. But I think these is another reason, one that is particular to our time, we’ve been told for so long that we’re special, it’s become ubiquitous in our minds. Now those who started this may have meant well, but the truth of life is a brutal thing, being unique does not make you impressive, many of us are damn disappointing. We act as if the world should notice us, celebrate us just because we exist, but so do seven billion other souls, and what we fail to recognize is this: That no one much cares that you are alive, which we hide from ourselves and our children, we prefer the lie that we are special, which ensures that we are soon forgotten... CONTINES IN PART II.