Doesn’t it, though? If a minority that happens to know a truth, but they all keep quiet about it, what’s to keep the masses from remaining ignorant indefinitely? Of course (tautologically) the truth will still be true whether or not anyone knows it, but I get the sense that you were implying something less trivial.
If the masses don’t want to invest in learning the truth, then they won’t learn it, but you’d need some extremely totalitarian guarding to prevent that. However if the truth happens to permit you to achieve useful things in a subject, then that is leverage that can be used to inspire some part of the masses to learn it.
Caledonian: “Truth does not require guarding.”
Doesn’t it, though? If a minority that happens to know a truth, but they all keep quiet about it, what’s to keep the masses from remaining ignorant indefinitely? Of course (tautologically) the truth will still be true whether or not anyone knows it, but I get the sense that you were implying something less trivial.
If the masses don’t want to invest in learning the truth, then they won’t learn it, but you’d need some extremely totalitarian guarding to prevent that. However if the truth happens to permit you to achieve useful things in a subject, then that is leverage that can be used to inspire some part of the masses to learn it.