It is my experience that — despite my most assiduous efforts — pretending something is true does not necessarily make it so and ignoring something does not make it go away. And yet (forget me for a moment) societally we go terribly wrong by expending an enormous amount of energy in ignoring certain truths we do not wish to confront. Imagine our options if we just — hear me out — didn’t do that anymore.
Chin up.
Echos of that misquote, "You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”