It doesn't matter how horrible someone is, or how much I usually disagree with them: The truth is the truth no matter who says it.
This is something it seems most of the population simply can't comprehend. And they'll punish you for agreeing with truth uttered by someone they don't like.
It's best if you ignore "the masses" at that point. The truth doesn't turn into a lie just because you don't like the person who said it. Even if everything else they've ever said was a lie.
If Trump warned European politicians about becoming too dependent on Russian energy, or if Alex Jones answers an antagonistic question in court about elite pedophiles by mentioning Jeffrey Epstein, you don't have to like or agree with either of them to enjoy the truth of their statements.
I've found myself agreeing with politicians and criminals (and just ordinary nasty people) of every sort over the years. Sometimes when people forward those emails full of quotes I can hardly believe the truthful things some monsters have said-- but if they actually said them (not to be assumed, for sure), the source doesn't affect the trueness.
There's a cost to ignoring the truth, no matter who it comes from.
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Well said. This is the difference between someone who is capable of independent thought and sapient discernment versus those who have yielded and surrendered that capacity for a sycophantic and obedient conformity to social consensus or the dictates of a master.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the opposite is also true. Don't accept something just because it comes from a trusted source. Everyone is sometimes wrong.
DeleteI agree. What I was alluding to with the phrase ‘sapient discernment’ was the ability to recognize the ‘true’ from the ‘wrong’. What is true is still true even if no one; group or individual has yet recognized or acknowledged and accepted it. An even more difficult but yet perhaps a more important distinction of choice and action, at least for those individuals that haven’t forfeited making it, is the difference between what is ‘real’ or physically existing and what is ‘right’ or ethically proper. Some will argue that these are one and the same but IMO that is just another form of the shirking of personal choice.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree.
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