But do you need to believe in "myths" (things that are basically fiction) in order to
hide from these "unpleasant" truths?
First of all, myths are often more truthful than scientific "truth."
Second, I make a distincting between hiding from unpleasant truths and choosing not to pay attention to truths which will detract from rather than add to my life.
One has to draw limits. There is no way to go through the day looking for the whole truth about anything. People have spent lifetimes studying very limited subjects and still never getting the "whole" truth about them.
And sometimes one does need to hide, or at least ignore, unpleasant truths to get through the day. I don't listen to C-SPAN because it makes me physically ill. (Not vomiting, but it does raise my blood pressure dangerously, counteracting the medication I have to take.) I prefer to hide from the truth of what goes in much of the time in Washington because if I really sought out that truth I would not be able to do my job the rest of the day.
Frankly, I think you're toying with me and others here. I believe that you, too, accept certain myths during the day or ignore certain unpalatable truths in order to get on with what you view as important in your life. I don't, of course, know that as a fact, but if you don't do any of that, you will be the first person I have ever known, and probably the first person in the history of the human race, to do so. |
