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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