I just read an article and I would really like you to take 10mins max. and read it.
For me, it serves as yet another proof for the need to keep talking openly, fearlessly and for the true love of country.
For that is true love all about: uttering the unspoken, facing the “inconvinient facts”(1), in essence, wanting to better each other.
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(1)Max Weber, ‘Science as Vocation‘, ( ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’) Gesammlte Aufsaetze zur Wissenschaftslehre (Tubingen, 1922), pp. 524-55. Originally a speech at Munich University, 1918, published in 19l9 by Duncker & Humblodt, Munich. (emphasis added)
“The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize ‘inconvenient’ facts–I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. And for every party opinion there are facts that are extremely inconvenient, for my own opinion no less than for others. I believe the teacher accomplishes more than a mere intellectual task if he compels his audience to accustom itself to the existence of such facts. I would be so immodest as even to apply the expression ‘moral achievement,’ though perhaps this may sound too grandiose for something that should go without saying.”
