The truth is, all the truth is already out there.

We have several millennia worth of knowledge at our disposal, thousands upon thousands of seminal works from thinkers far more erudite in the human condition and with far more wisdom than any of us could ever hope to have. Confucius, Buddha, the Bible, Laozi, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Kant, Hume, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Jung—these are just the most venerated ones; there are tens of thousands more. And yet, most of their work, while timeless in their own right, for the vast majority of people today, remains fatefully consigned to the dustbins of history, which itself has become an esoteric, desolate realm of study. 

It is incredibly doubtful that any particular ideology or belief system will become universally accepted and inculcated into every member of every society, but it doesn’t need to be. In fact, that would be counterproductive; because of the incredible variety of characters that inhabit this earth, variance in belief must correspond accordingly to accommodate such variety, paving different paths albeit to the same destination. 

But the point is that we’ve already asked all the hard questions of life, and we’ve already attempted to answer all of them. The fountain of truth is brimming with knowledge, overflowing with wisdom, and far more accessible to the common person today than at any point in our entire history. And yet, most of us choose not to drink from it. We cannot come to the naive and contemptuous conclusion that all these great thinkers of the past are irrelevant in today’s circumstances and imperiously claim we know better than every single one of them, lest we compel ourselves to relearn all the lessons that our ancestors sacrificed everything for, fighting tooth and nail to learn them in the first place.