I find it strange that people do not seek truth for truth's sake.

Sure, there are times when you really do not need to know the truth about something. How much time would you spend, and how important would it be to you, to know which dog tore up your newspaper when you have more than one dog? (Newspaper? How old am I?) Or if your mom and dad really did conceive you out of wedlock? Or if Grandpa wears briefs or boxers?

I am also not a fan of knowing things about my body from a health perspective if the only course of action would be to pump toxic chemicals into it with a 2% chance of a cure. A close female friend of mine recently let me know she was doing some new-fangled medical DNA test to determine if she has the markers for eventual Alzheimer's.

Really?

Why would anyone want to know that? You hear all of the time about tests on the market designed to determine if you have the propensity for this or that. How accurate could any of this stuff be? Let's say you owned a company that had created a pill or procedure that would prevent this or that disease. And then, you made a test that would tell a person if they had the "propensity" to develop that disease.

What a perfect setup that would be, eh?

Wow, imagine that. And none of it even needs to be true! The pill, the test, nope, not a single aspect of it. You and your company would make a fortune. Well, that isn't really knowing truth for truth's sake, is it? Nope, that there is what you call a scam. (Hmmm.)

Who knows. I'm not saying it is all a scam. But forget it, I don't want to be told I have "markers" for Alzheimer's. You can be sure if I am told that, and the chances would be 20% I would develop Alzheimer's, then I would sure as hell get it. Where if I had not been told, I would be in the 80 percentile and would not get it. Power of the mind and all that. I certainly believe in such things when it comes to my body's health.

There are also less important things that you can just leave up to mystery. But things that are important to the world, and to your own community, and your own sense of right and wrong. Those things you want to know, just for the sake of knowing. Some of these things you might be able to do something about, some of them you might not.

Sure, there are private things (like the examples I gave earlier) where insisting on knowing is tantamount to gossip. It is strange that so many people think if we want to know, say, if Fauci is lying about sand flea experiments on puppies, it is an invasion of privacy, "Leave the poor guy alone," they may moan. "You don't have to know everything about him." There really is no personal privacy for authority figures acting out their official duties. If Fauci was having lurid sexual encounters with woodchucks, then maybe we don't need to know that. But any experiments he may or may not have executed in the course of his profession is information that affects us, and we should know it.