The bigger truth
Certain things are accepted. They are accepted as normal. Accepted as a proper and mature stance. Accepted as healthy. The fact that these things are also untrue, or subject to a greater truth is often denied. The greater truth is too painful to deal with. Those who point it out are seen as immature in their thinking. Efffectively their thinking is cast out because it produces a discomfort. It is seen as an extreme. Any decent psychologist knows that sometimes the painful things point to a truth, and that instead of running away from or shielding ourselves from it, we have to stay in the painful place for a while, dwell with it, to really see what is going on. We have sometimes to adjust to the pain, not just shy away from it and seek to blot it out. In time we can see the truth whole and fully and we have the opportunity to adjust our minds or our lives to the greater reality, the bigger truth. But this tendency (to blot out painful stuff or deny it) is hard-wired into us. It'...