New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 87
We all know we have to tell the truth, especially in these trying times. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn told us that a single man telling the truth could bring down a regime. Well, how do you tell the truth against those odds? You need a lot more than knowing you should tell the truth. You have to love the truth (and fear it!) with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength, and then you need to tell your neighbor the truth as you would expect him to tell the truth to you. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay breaks down one of the most important principles against tyranny: loving the truth. Join him to get based.
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3 comments
I speak the truth a lot. People ignore me. People do not want the truth because the truth is boring and doesn’t flatter any particular set of beliefs. After a while doing this becomes exhausting and embarrassing and depressing. If someone actually responded to me and gave me something to defend, that would be one thing. But they don’t. They ignore me. My new approach is that if people want to know the truth they can ask me. Otherwise let them drown, I don’t care anymore.
I am at the same stage: Let them drown because they want to drown. F-ck them all. I left Truth behind long ago and focused for a while on Reality. But now it’s clear to me that “people” have rejected both. Of their own free will, Western people have chosen Drowning. I’m old so my next frontier is neither Truth nor Reality: it’s Survival.
I would say that you need to love honesty.
I watch a lot of kid’s shows when my girlfriend’s daughter comes over to visit. And almost all of the comic plot lines depend on a character telling a fib and then later being found out. It is a universal story line. But that’s honesty, not really “The Truth.”
The TRUTH is what actually is. Most people don’t have a clue what actually is so do not have any real opportunity to love the truth. I believe I have learned more about what actually is, and I do love that knowledge. Of course, it all starts with being honest.