How should a human creature react to a true statement? Where do we allow the written word to take us today, if anywhere? Where would a true word, written or spoken, say we are, and where does it say we're going? What has been the power of the written word throughout our history, which in our secular age we seem on guard against, providing as it does with a regaining of orientation and direction which the modern world cannot abide, for the fact that it has no patience for any  statements which would reveal the shortcomings of its own project: that of 'modernity'? A true statement has always been felt as a knife piercing the illusion of ourselves we have built up, and the world as a whole has a similar self it seeks to protect from such piercing statements.

 

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