Jack Nicholson said it in A Few Good Men—“You can’t handle the truth.” And while he was playing a fictional colonel, the line has only gotten more relevant with time.

Because in 2025, truth is no longer universal. It’s algorithmic. It’s curated. It’s branded.

There’s your truth. My truth. The internet’s truth. The truth they want you to believe.

And in the middle of all that noise is the real version—quiet, stubborn, and inconvenient.

It’s not that truth disappeared. It’s that most people can’t—or won’t—face it.

The truth demands confrontation. And people don’t want confrontation. They want comfort. Echo chambers. Feel-good reinforcement.

They want sanitized facts. Tailored narratives. Filtered doses of righteousness. Not the raw stuff. Not the uncomfortable kind that exposes flaws, demands change, or pierces through legacy and position.

But here’s the thing—truth doesn’t need permission. It doesn’t need a platform. And it doesn’t need your comfort.

Truth just is.

And if we stop telling the truth—if we start bending it to protect feelings, status, or legacy—then we’re not solving problems. We’re surrendering to them.

The hardest part isn’t finding truth. It’s standing beside it when it’s no longer popular. When it makes you the odd one out. When it costs you.

Because truth has always come with a cost. And in 2025? That cost has never been higher.

And I’m paying it. Every day.

But I’ll keep paying it. Because a life spent avoiding truth… isn’t much of a life at all.

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This isn’t a think piece. It’s a warning. And if it makes you uncomfortable—good. That means it’s working.