Speaking truth is always a risky decision. People tend to live in their own little worlds where their truth is the real truth. However the two rarely coincide.
As the narrator pushes through his terrible journey with Mr. Norton, the two men encounter a seemingly crazy vet-doctor. The man offers to help the shocked Mr. Norton but it doesn’t end well. As the vet-doctor forces his beliefs on the two, he ends up claiming that Mr. Norton ,“(He) believes in that great false wisdom taught slaves and pragmatists alike, that white is right”(95). This gives the reader a lot of insight about society at this time. This man is insinuating that white people along with slaves have been taught from a young age the white people are right. The white people hold the power. The white people never make mistakes. The white people are simply better. The vet-doctor calls this mind-set the result of “false wisdom” in the sense that society have come to believe in this idea to such an extent that it has gone from someone’s truth to the reality’s truth.
It is ironic the vet-doctor is viewed as such a crazy outcast of society when he is actually the only person so far who can see the big picture. He has the ability to understand the motivation of society and possesses the guts to speak his findings to anyone he is compelled to enlighten.
This image portrays many people all sharing one mind or idea. The shared though is no one person’s. Everyone is mindlessly believing whatever they are supposed to believe just like the society in Invisible Man.
https://sites.google.com/a/cms.k12.nc.us/ap-psych-2b/anusha-dubey--the-psychology-of-conformity
It is very insightful that you mentioned that people think "their truth is the real truth", but that is not so. Especially in that time period, the whites definitely believed that the blacks are inferior to them and that "the white people are right." I agree with the picture you added and how it depicts the society in the book and that you stated that everybody is "mindlessly believing".
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