Historical Revisionist – Our Fear of Truth

We rather like the truth if it serves our purpose and supports our agendas. However, if the truth does neither of these, we find ourselves a bit annoyed, somewhat exasperated, and often determining how we can bend the truth sufficiently to make it less intrusive and far less problematic. And that often involves a bit of creative revisionism.

The issue is that we often choose our agendas over the truth, which speaks to the poignantly domineering nature of our agendas. We are sometimes so caught up in what we’d like to do that the truth about what we’re doing, or the truth regarding the consequences of what we’re doing is altogether circumvented in part or whole by some partisan revision of the truth. And to abandon truth in favor of our agendas will always result in the disturbing diminishment or all-out destruction of those very agendas.