This does not claim that “everything is relative” or that “truth is whatever you want it to be,” because these delusions are not something we can trust to live our lives from in a meaningful way.

The idea that all human beings are of the same nature and need the same things is one of the things that generates conflict, and the sacredness of liberty and freedom is that it enables us to pursue our happiness in very different ways without impinging on the freedom of others. This is no easy task and requires “wisdom,” but this too is not a singular thing that exists as a “floating abstraction” (Rand) without context and reference.

This is why I think one of the most respectful ways to relate to both other species and other human beings is as “alien beings.” This suggests that there are many different levels of truth and truth can be framed and viewed from many perspectives.

As with the grades we go through in school or the belt levels in martial arts, what applies as true (or interim truth) at one level gets adapted and evolved at higher levels. This is why science never claims to have “the truth” but rather to approach it through disciplined experimental testing. Even so, modern science errs as “scientism” in its assumption that the only things worthy of experiment and testing are physical objects.

You are right that people in mass only desire the truths that help them be comfortable in the moment and win at the games they like to play. There are individual exceptions such as yourself, myself, and many others who find themselves reading this blog. That we who care find our next level of truth is what matters and honoring our own self requires that we not need the rest of humanity to go along with us until and if ever they are ready. Thanks for being one who seeks to know and live that knowledge or “gnosis” in its deepest sense.