James Sire’s book Habits of the Mind can be commended to one and all. Here is a quote from this fine book—-
“When loving the truth is quite out of fashion, as it is at present, the very mention of the word can call up hatred. Veritas otium Parit, said the Roman poet Terence –truth engenders hatred. The desire to flee truth is deep, deep in human nature, and that fact is not obscure to anyone.”
It is one of the roots of our current cultural malaise. People would rather shout ‘fake news’ than hear the sad truth about themselves, the ones they idolize, the ones they look to as leaders. But alas, all sinners, which is to say, all of us, would do well to drink some truth serum every morning, look in the mirror and say— ‘I have seen the enemy, and he is us!’ as Pogo once said.
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