“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him to truth.”
St. Thomas Aquainas
Lately, many of us have sensed the ground shifting beneath the institutions we once took for granted. Trust in universities, the media, corporations, government agencies, and even parts of the church has eroded at an alarming pace. Scandals accumulate, contradictions multiply, and language grows increasingly performative—until the cumulative effect is not simple disappointment but a quieter, more unsettling recognition: something fundamental is wrong with the way we handle reality itself.