That initial jolt when something true breaks through can feel unsettling. But it often tells a longer story — about how much effort went into maintaining what no longer fits.

Disillusionment isn’t a personal failure. It’s a collective threshold many are crossing right now, often without much language for it.

Full reflection for this week here: https://emotus.substack.com/p/when-we-stop-pretending-part-i

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When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the #truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic
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