In the delightful cinematic murder mystery, All Knives Out, the brilliant Sherlock-Holmes-esque detective (played by Daniel Craig with his usual gusto) ruminates: "...the inevitability of truth...the complexity and the grey are not in the truth, but in what you do with the truth when you get it..." He speaks of the arc of evidence, fact, clues that lead ineluctably to the truth. We know the genre; we know someone did it; and we know that he will eventually and infallibly discover it. At that point we are mystified but we know the truth is coming and we wait patiently with joyous expectation. He does not disappoint!
"The inevitability of truth." Such a pregnant, provocative phrase! Yes, the Truth is inevitable. It is unavoidable; ineluctable; efficacious; invincible. Truth is powerful and irrepressible. Finally, truth will prevail. It will manifest itself; it cannot not unveil its splendor. It cannot retreat; it cannot be defeated or repressed (except temporarily); it cannot not glorify itself.
Blessed are we who know truth; happy are we who are grasped by truth; privileged are we who... in whatever manner, minor or grand, heroic or humble...have the honor of witnessing to it.
The late-liberal order echoes Pilate: "What is truth?" The sadness of cynicism, skepticism, agnosticism, distrust!
But the Joy of Truth: the hope and expectation! The delectation! The ecstasy of triumph!
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