The Truth Is A Social Construct
Everyone is lying to you. Here's why: we love being lied to. We prefer beautiful lies over the ugly truth. So the whole world runs on lies. You're reading this and thinking that I must be the most cynical person on earth, and that surely there are some honest truths out there. But the reality is, the truth is a social construct. What you choose to believe and who you choose to believe are all relative, and those choices are usually based on how you were raised, your own life experiences and perception of the world. The problem is that we've become so used to believing that we're actually fed the truth and that people would never lie to us, that now we're shocked when someone like Hasan Minhaj or Jay Shetty or Jeff Bezos turns out to have been telling "emotional truths". As if we didn't realize everyone was lying about who they are in the first place, and that is quite literally why they got to where they are. But we eat it up, because the truth isn...