“. . . it’s better not to trust anyone blindly, but rather, to verify the truth yourself.”

I am not able to verify the truth myself. I am able to follow conversations that make sense to me, but I know that is not ‘the truth’ that many seek. I do wonder whether it is the closest to truth and whether any conversations I have privilege to hear are already filtered through a system of ‘sense making’ that ‘the truth’ of them really doesn’t matter as much as their intent to inform beneficial collective action. A community in conversation often finds out whether their speech is benefiting them. We need the freedom to fuck around and find out. We don’t need people telling us that the truth is. We need people sharing what they experience.