From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 48
Truth doesn’t give a darn about being credible because it doesn’t need us believing it to exist; truth does not need us, it is us that need it to survive, as the truth is the way things are and in order to survive one has to solve the real and exact problems, not the false and wrong ones.
It has been said that the falsehoods, since the truth makes them vanish, actively fight truth in order to survive; and that every thing crooked, wrong, that is not the way it ought to be and produce succumbing instead of survival is such and persists because it contains falsehood.
And we, even before being allergic to the attitude needed for the quest for truth, we’re allergic to truth itself; as soon as we smell it we react like animals in danger: we run from it if we can and if we can’t we fight it till death.
Consequently, if we don’t grab ourselves by the scruff of the neck, where and when those who are trying would need us and our help or its lack makes the difference between life or death, we’re liable to be considered for what we are: constraints instead of resources, part of the problem that won’t be part of the solution, betrayers of our place in the world.