Sunday, August 17, 2014

Humanity Can't Handle The Truth

We have a really awful tendency to ignore what we don't want to know, so much so that we end up with a great deal of discord and harm that we will accept over the full picture of just about anything. This includes history, when we try and pass along only a pretty picture of the past (even when it's lies), sex education (where knowledge is seen as disgusting), corporate actions (where the chain of actions behind any business always eventually leads to a massive group of people somewhere not being treated with respect), food processing (where the process of slaughter is never revealed), climate science (cherry picking and lying about isolated sections of data), religion (ignoring when a claim – all of them, really – fails), and more. We are creatures who can't handle the truth and work very hard to keep it at bay.

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