Finding the truth about human nature, and successfully implementing the truth are not often connected

I tend to trust, sometimes presumptuously, my sense of the truth no matter where it comes from, reason or intuition, or even the “direct apprehension” that Schopenhauer talked about, which is not always academic, scientific or religious. It seems more like reason and intuition working together to arrive at reality. Courage also is involved because often times the truth seems to take courage to see, or admit, and also related to sensing what is not the truth.

What I would like to see established is the basic truth that we humans have a built-in determined human nature with a purpose, which is contrary to the idea that all things are subject to malleability by man's ideas and man's culture. This is a cultural, political, philosophical and religious debate over truth and reality, which is often buried by academic, scientific or religious thinking, but it is mostly buried by the social media.

We know that finding the truth is different from successfully selling or implementing the truth. The media in general is first concerned with selling what they decide is the news and they have not been much concerned with finding the truth, which means that the truth often has little social power. Then there are various kinds of force that can be applied with little concern for the truth, which can bury the truth. This means that lies, untruths, or at least misconceptions, prevail in society, and the truth always takes the very slow path to acceptance.

What seems rare is to have a finder and teller of truths who is also a successful seller or establisher of truths in society. Maybe that's why dual forms of leadership, eg. kings and priests, evolved, helping one another in successful societies.