Your note reminded me of Socrates and the following note:
During his time, lies and corruption were spreading to the highest social levels in old Greece. He did not adapt to the abnormal normal.
"Those in power in Athens were enormously threatened by the True Power that Socrates lived, by his continual exposure of the ills and corruptions of society, and by the true reflection and inspiration his way of living brought to the greater population. He inspired people to their own knowing, and to ask their own questions of the life around them. Those in power despised him and the unrelenting purity that he freely and unashamedly lived. As with many bearers of Truth throughout the ages, trumped-up charges were finally brought against him and he was sentenced to death by hemlock at the age of 70 – a death that he embraced without cowering, and in Socratic style he continued to teach in joy until the moment of his death."
About 2500 years ago ...
"Socrates placed Truth at the forefront of everything he did and he was unrelenting in his pursuit and expression of this."
"Socrates dedicated himself to a life of purity and to truth, in contrast to the corruption, indulgence and excess of Athens."
"He brought us courage, strength, humility, purity and an absolute unrelenting commitment to Truth and to living the essential values of Truth in society; of dignity, decency and respect and an equality for all. He called all to a higher standard of lived responsibility in society and he did not waver in that call. He called for society to be founded on true values, not ones of expediency and personal gain. Corruption was anathema to his being and he saw it as a great ill in society."
"Socrates taught in a manner of discourse and questioning, encouraging people to always explore the deeper ‘why’ until a unifying truth was reached."
https://www.unimedliving.com/ageless-wisdom/students-of-the-ageless-wisdom/socrates-the-unrelenting-pursuit-of-truth.html
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