The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power.
Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
