The Truth, as it is pictured by ordinary minds, is never held by some individual somewhere, but rather by an organized collection of men who, either via divine revelation or combined intellectual effort, are the keepers and distributors of The Truth, (Judaism, Marxism, Existentialism, Post Modernism). It is then that a seeker can therein learn The Truth by submitting his thoughts to their thoughts, (swap the wrong for the right – right?) What they seek is an outside sourced verbal template by which to form their own world view. This is how it works and how it seems proper to ordinary minds and to such, no proof to the contrary can be presented, (nor of course, is it intended to be). For the few, this just won’t do.
Ponder, why do ordinary minds WANT to submit themselves to restrictions on what they can think is, or might be The Truth? You can feel the desire extant in your own brain. The attraction for mental regulation is inherent in everyone, (just less so in the secretly insurgent few). Ordinary people are not simply stupid and must be told what to think. Even if they were, other humans would be just as stupid as them. So from who could they be so told? No it is more and more subtle than that.
There is no question, from the few’s more expansive view, that the closer a participant comes to being a “good” Catholic, Socialist, Environmentalist, Anarchist, the more does he say that the institution’s ideas on the matters are superior to his and indeed must replace any of his that may be in conflict. This cannot from the routine human perspective be denounced. The very concept of being a valid member of any organization is based on you accepting that what they say is The Truth is THE truth. Regardless of yours or anyone else’s thoughts otherwise, such institutionalized thinking is an important and deep rooted pile in the structure of mankind’s civilized existence. That’s the book on that.
What ordinary people never look at is the why, behind their desire to be told The Truth in the form of regulations and restrictions on their thinking, (which a man privately digging around the foundations of all this must investigate), and the answer is simple and obvious to a keen eye. Unless, for practical reasons, their thoughts are focused on a specific matter in the physical world outside of them, men feel that their thoughts are out of their control. They do not talk about it in such terms, but their behavior in submitting themselves willingly to the teaching of The Truth, by some human organization, is ready proof of their desire to impose some sort of regimentation on their thoughts – even if it is based on extrinsic, and clearly questionable, authority.
J.