The world may not like to see these ideas. [contrarian]
The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth—to let white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but, hate as it will, it is indebted to him.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, loc. 71383the craft of Brontë is breathtaking for example, in this passage, she uses vivid imagery to make us see societal complacency and the resistance against truth-tellers, emphasizing the necessity of confronting uncomfortable realities despite potential backlash. and I think this encapsulates the era we live in today in the U.S., which we live in a time when the truth, the thing that is in front of you, the thing you saw, understood, and knew happened, is being denied. It is being put aside simply because the kid, the small kid in the White House, wants to enjoy the comfortable life of not paying attention to realities.