Modernity and the Spirit of Truth

We are modern to the extent that we understand the world as tragically flawed but we resist the truth that would allow us to construct our world after the manner of our personal desires and needs. We are anxious that the truth, by revealing itself to us, will show us that the tragic flaw resides in us and then we will have to drop all our laboriously manufactured excuses and justifications for consisting in two halves rather than being whole. And the truth is a person, is someone of whom we are ashamed. We find him objectionable because he reminds us both of our inhumanity and of our human-natural capacity for maturity and growth.