Speaking Truth to Power

Have you ever brought great success on a healthy and sustainable diet?

But you don’t do the grocery shopping and you certainly do not run the kitchen.

Eventually my wife will come around. Some day my wife will listen to me. I will no longer have to compromise on my dietary ideals.

There is a whole lot of truth being spoken to power concerning diet, and health, via YouTube. The media aspect of these health practitioners becomes a whole new profession in and of itself in many cases.

But on a more personal level, I have never shown any hesitation to speak truth to power. I do not consider myself a trouble maker, perhaps a thorn in people’s side, but never malicious in my portrayals.

I am not going to lay out the bigotry I experienced in my chosen profession, Architecture, here. You can research back into some of my blogs if you are interested.

I write in good faith, from a point where the lack of ethics are irrefutable and known clearly, at least to some.

I have never looked to profit from any misdeeds people may have committed against me.

Rather than repent, a religious concept, or simply relent when challenged on their values people of position may claim, “You have burned your bridges.”

No bridges burned. Not with anyone I would want to work with.

So… in order to speak truth to power, to be a moral voice one needs to be a religious?

Or should a religious turn the other cheek, never speaking out?

Writers, and fiction writers can speak, or rather write, truth to power, but mostly in fields akin to journalism, are they the only ones allowed to set the moral compass for a society?

The irony here being journalists are some of the most immoral and unethical influencers in modern society.

Religion is not something to bring into the office. It is something to be done on your own time, so society claims.

Your own time?

All my time is my own time.

The problem with society today is people cannot be whole beings. They must segregate their lives into compartments, none allowed to overlap with the other.

This is a generalization, but it holds water. Whatever one’s profession they should feel a moral imperative to uphold the values they hold dear; values arising from faith and family.

One’s values should be organic, not bestowed upon another by self proclaimed overseers.

I often think about my propensity to speak truth to power, a practice often judged to be in poor taste. A propensity I feel is essential to maintain in working for a moral society.

Is my choice in my present circumstance to be either a writer or to shut my mouth? Bind my fingers from typing?

My life is far more expansive than simply being a writer, and it is going to stay that way. And if people I am involved with are out of line, I will let them know; respectfully and in good time.

You need to understand what life is about and start living it people.

I love to write.


Thanks for reading.