“For reasons that are too long & boring be explain I have lost all faith in liberal democracy an asdfadsf ”

For reasons that are too long & boring be explain I have lost all faith in liberal democracy and Western civilization in general and would probably identify, if not for my material & social cowardice, as same variety of revolutionary communist or another. What is more important: adherence to truth, no matter where it leads, or the maintenance of social bonds with the community? (I shall take your professional bias as an artist into account.)