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Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid — Question Authority
Why Experiencing Truth is Such a Struggle but so Necessary
Sometimes it pays to keep your mouth shut. Other times the price is too high. You compromise you truth and authenticity. And you keep yourself chained to the wall in Plato’s cave thinking that the shadows on the wall are reality and your only option for a full life.
The message of the Allegory of the Cave is that most of us are trapped by a false narrative.
We need good folks to speak truth to our illusion of truth.
Radio silence
It was 7 pm on a Sunday. The strains of Mozart’s clarinet Concerto in A major wafted over the air. I was about to start my weekly radio show, “The Next Step,” on an Evangelical Christian station in Southern California. It was a call-in program where listeners would consult me as a psychologist about their problems in life.
That evening, my wife Kris was painting the living room walls while listening to my radio program, as she did every week. Her attention was caught by an announcement that aired just before my show. She put down her paintbrush in shock. The announcement was advising listeners who had businesses not to hire gay people.
