late parrhesia

So I know this is my second post, and it's a little late, but one can only do so much when losing all sanity during finals. Here's a final thought I was thinking about last night...

I was thinking about free speech and parrhesia (which, funny side note, comes up in spell-check as "Parcheesi") and it occurred to me that in today's society, this free speech that has danger in its truth is not really accepted. It seems that many of the things that we as a society should know, and should talk about, are often put on the back-burner or repressed because either the government does not want the general public to find out or we are too uncomfortable to talk about it. We are so complacent in hearing what is easy, what is simple. No one wants the real truth anymore because it is in fact dangerous. Furthermore, people who actually search for this truth in things seem to be frequently labeled as "radicals" and "insane." I feel as if this is only getting worse too. Coupled with the media, there is a consistent downfall of actual truth. We are constantly fed headlines about such, such as today's on BBC.com, which read "Police have forced back hundreds of protesters who tried to break through a perimeter fence at the UN climate summit venue in Copenhagen." These protestors were arguing against the slow progress on the new climate deal as well as against the restrictions on access to the talks. These people are being held from knowing the truth concerning them. It does not make any sense to me why the information processed in the talks would not be made available to the public. If we could see exactly what goes on in hearings and discussions like this, would we not as a society be better fitted to deal with the issues at hand? I just feel like the truth is constantly being kept from us, in multiple ways.