Man in the Crossroad

One of the characteristics of modern man is its indecision and indifference (not in the classical meaning) when it comes to the nature of truth of things and its principles. Man’s abandonment of its own capacity to wonder and to seek after the truth. True enough that finding the reasons of the realities has its rudiments of systematizing our own way of thinking, but it’s the only means or ways we can arise from ignorance and indifference when confronted by the most inescapable questions of our own existence. In our day and age, man has now relegated in making the decision on the nature of truth to the mainstream culture or “pop culture” and braces the mentality of relativism in aspects of social and personal norm and morality if not the denial of truth altogether.

Man tries and wants to find the easy way out in the complexities and perplexities of our existence; a characteristic of laziness in human nature. One manifestation of man’s indecision and indifference has to do on the outright rejection of the universality of truth which man must and ought to be guided. This universality especially express in the rich patrimony of the antiquity and from the succeeding generations in understanding man and the truth of existence. These truths became out-moded, out-dated, and irrelevant to the modern man and became just a point of view and suggestions and belong to the cold and dusty shelf. Man has only to realize the implications and being subjected from this rejection and relativism to the society and family. This knowledge and understanding of truth is framed in the context of the non-existent of universal truth or objective truth and that only the subjective truth exist; therefore, your truth cannot be my truth or it can only the truth if it only agrees with mine. Sound familiar? It is and that is how our society operates by manipulating the truth suit one’s like.

Man is subjected to the limit of discovering and assenting to the truth, yet this does not mean we are not cannot know the truth in the natural order notwithstanding the metaphysical, supernatural and transcendent truth. Man is caught in the crossroad he/she made and that is naturally being laid unto him. Man can recover from his/her indifference, contempt and denial of truth in its personal and universal understanding is to teach man to think for him/herself, to pursue where the truth leads and to elicit the virtue of integrity as one being confronted with the truth of things. Man also has to recover the true sense of wonder and to acknowledge man’s limited capacity of knowing and understanding reality or truth. Truth are paradoxical just the diamond has different facet that reflects light.

Truth is the foundation which everything is built upon. Foundation is not laid apart from the very structure but below it to stand. Is truth is in me or apart of me? It is both.