We Believe What We’re Told and Nothing Else
We don’t read. We react. Scroll, share, scream — never question.
We think critical thinking is bias. We think research is whatever pops up first online. We think emotion equals truth, and the louder the voice, the more valid the claim.
We don’t check sources — we check vibes. We don’t trust experts — We trust influencers.
Propaganda wears new skin now. It speaks in memes. It sells outrage as patriotism and lies as a lifestyle.
And we buy it — daily, gladly, violently.
Because it feels good to be right, even when we’re wrong. Especially when we’re wrong.
We’ve become allergic to nuance. We flatten every issue into headlines we didn’t read past. We treat journalists like enemies, and pundits like prophets.
We’ve trained ourselves to hate context. To hate complexity. To hate the idea that we might be wrong.
And now we walk through the world with armor made of ignorance, swords made of opinion, cutting down the truth because it makes us uncomfortable.
Media doesn’t control us. We do.
We click. We boost. We reward the shallow, the sensational and the stupid.
And when reality collapses under the weight of our delusions, we’ll blame the “mainstream” instead of the mirror.