Perspective can explain what you notice. It can’t rewrite what’s real. There’s a sentence that sounds like wisdom in the modern world. It shows up in memes, captions, arguments, podcasts, classrooms, and even church conversations if we’re not paying attention. “Everyone has their own truth.” It sounds mature. It sounds tolerant. It sounds like we’re finally being kind to people’s experiences. But if you slow down and ask what it actually means, it doesn’t hold together. Not l

Most people never stop to ask the question, because they have been trained not to. From childhood, we are taught to trust the systems that govern our food, medicine, and health. We are told that what we consume has been tested, regulated, and approved. That anything “bad” is either banned outright or present only in “trace amounts,” far below any level of concern. And taken individually, that claim is often true. But no one lives inside a laboratory. In the real world, the hu