The 'Truth' has died

I am happy to announce that I cannot take the mainstream media anymore. I think I am going through a crisis of faith.

A crisis of faith in the idea of the "Truth" itself.

We were raised to believe that the truth is a single, objective thing sitting out there in the world, waiting to be discovered.

We treat it like a solid object. A "universal fact" that should be clear to anyone who looks.

This sounds logical, but it is actually the root of why everyone is so angry today.

The problem with believing in only one truth is that it turns information into a weapon. If there is only one "correct" reality, then anyone who sees things differently isn't just someone with a different opinion. By definition, they must be stupid, crazy, or evil.

This "one truth" model gives people the moral authority to silence anyone who disagrees. After all, if you are holding the one true version of reality, you aren't just winning an argument, you are defending the world against heresy.

To maintain this system, we have professionalized the truth. Since we believe it is "out there" to be found, we have created a class of modern-day priests to find it for us: the journalists, the experts, and the scientists.

We look to them to provide the "objective" word of law, much like people in the Middle Ages looked to the Church.

But these experts are human beings. They have biases, they have bosses, and they follow the money. When they behave like humans, it causes a systemic nervous breakdown because the "God" of Objectivity has failed us.

That is why we need to stop being shocked when the truth on the news feels like a lie.

Think about it, If a story has reached your screen, it isn't a random accident of nature. It is a product.

It was selected, packaged, and delivered to you because someone decided that this specific narrative was the most effective way to influence your behavior or your mood.

Information is not a window into the world. It is a tool used to move the world.

The moment you stop looking for a single, holy truth is the moment that sets you free. You can finally stop the exhausting fight over who is right and start asking the only question that matters: Why am I being shown this story right now?

Once you realize that most of what we call "truth" is actually just a form of narrative management, you stop being an angry believer and start being a happy pagan.

The man of the Enlightenment killed God as the source of truth and replaced it with the "scientific method". But that didn't save us from fanaticism. That only meant that we stopped worshipping icons and started worshipping "The Facts", treating those facts with the same dogmatic rigidity as a medieval inquisitor.

I personally think that, If the man of the 18th century 'killed God,' then the man and woman of the 21st century should finish the job and kill 'The Truth' altogether.