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What emerges from the doctrinal struggles that cleave society is a frenzied tug-of-war between conflicting ideas. Essential truths are often trampled in the process. Everybody has opinions. Much of our mental constructs are erected on a vast scaffolding of opinions, generally someone else’s. We adopt them, cling to them, claiming they are the offspring of our own cogitation because they encourage us not to think, because they shield us from what we fear most, reality, because they keep us warm and cozy in our self-created doctrinal cocoons. As a journalist, I face my reality and I bare it with conscious self-awareness every time I compose my columns. I am painfully aware that candor and disquieting facts trigger caustic ripostes and bitter condemnation.What emerges from some of my detractors’ deconstructionist arguments is the very subtle suggestion that telling the truth is tantamount to heresy. They read the words, one by one, but stumble on the verities they...
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