That kind of chimes with what I wrote above about the avoidance of truth sometimes making us feel better in the short-term. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States: ‘The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable’. And then there’s this one, attributed to James A. That was said by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian and Soviet novelist and historian, according to Wikipedia (Not a name I was overly familiar with!). We err because this is more comfortable’. They’re so simple and yet so true!Īnd then I felt prompted to look up a few more quotes on truth and found the following: ‘We do not err because truth is difficult to see. On the topic of truth, two very familiar quotes came to me last night: ‘The truth will set you free’ and ‘To thine own self be true’. We or the other party may feel better in the short-term, but in the longer-term the truth generally comes out – with similar or even worse consequences to the ones it would have had if it had been disclosed in the first place. Unfortunately, that kind of dishonesty is often harmful, both to ourselves and others.
It’s the subtle dishonesty, the omission of true facts, the disguising of our true feelings – sometimes for good reason, sometimes out of fear – that I’m talking about here. Now, when I say dishonesty, I don’t mean outright lying or stealing or anything of that sort. It’s a topic that’s been on my mind this week after a few recent experiences with dishonesty – my own and that of others. But not until it is finished with you.It’s been a long day today but I wanted to write a very short post about truth. They are trapped, just as you are.’ ‘Is this supposed to be good news? This is awful news.’ ‘LaMont, are you willing to listen to a Remark about what is true?’ ‘Okey-dokey.’ ‘The truth will set you free. After the first photograph has been in a magazine, the famous men do not enjoy their photographs in magazines so much as they fear that their photographs will cease to appear in magazines. After the first surge, they care only that their photographs seem awkward or unflattering, or untrue, or that their privacy, this thing you burn to escape, what they call their privacy is being violated. After that, do you trust me, trust me: they do not feel what you burn for.
From the fame.’ ‘Lyle, don’t they?’ … ‘Perhaps the first time: enjoyment.
Else why would I burn like this to feel as they feel?’ ‘The meaning they feel, you mean.
‘You burn to have your photograph in a magazine.’ ‘I’m afraid so.’ … ‘You feel these men with their photographs in magazines care deeply about having their photographs in magazines. It's actually from the conversation between LaMont Chu and Lyle in Infinite Jest:
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