...Has convinced me that 'the truth' (on and about pretty much any issue of real worth/value/importance) is not found among the majoritarian, orthodox, status quo view...but among an open-minded, informed and critical-thinking remnant: those not afraid to declare that the age-old emperor indeed has no clothing, and that the real facts of most matters lie not in self-important, multi-lettered individuals, elites and bureaucracies but rather amongst the common people (as Ed Ames might've put it.)