This is disheartening

It turns out the truth may not set you free.

Sad, but I've known this for years.

There's a book I read many years ago, Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change. In it the authors posited a very interesting hypothesis, information disease.

I wrote an an essay on it a couple of years ago.

It could be said everyone suffers from information disease in some form. There's simply too much information in existence and we haven't the time to go through it all. And information disease is hard to treat.

Still, as the Washington Post article pointed out, the truth isn't completely without effect.

We should be aware that it isn't the cure all we believe it to be.