The truth can never catch up

The world is living within the realms of its own lies. Telling stories that it thinks are so convincing that the truth doesn't even have a chance.

Who is the oppressor and who is the victim?

Who is good and who is evil?

Who is the winner and who is the loser?

I think it's about the speaker's volume. Whoever speaks loudest gets heard.

It's about how it looks. What are the optics? Who is aligned with whom? What movements or ideas can you leech onto even if you bleed it dry and unrecognizable?

It's about whoever seems goodest, even if the parameters and paradigms don't fit the standard, gets to be ushered into victimhood or underdogness.

You know how we feel about an underdog.

And in this version of reality, where everything is radicalized into binaries, anything that doesn't fit the narrative that the entire facade rests upon, is wrong.

And yet, because there really is no internal logic within, stories get so twisted, politicians become caricatures, activists become the evil they are fighting against, and fake stories irretrievably spread across the globe.

The truth can never catch up.

That's why when Twitter revealed the home location of its profiles, all the actors pretending to be in G*za, telling the stories of suffering, are found to be located elsewhere.

When I saw these profiles showing up as being in Poland, Egypt, Indonesia, and God knows where else, I just had to laugh.

Of course, it's not really funny. The damage is done.

Then you look at the incident with Trump and Mamdani in the Oval Office.

Acting like good chums. Joking about fascism. Claiming to see eye to eye, and also pretending that they have radically different value systems. And then turning around and stabbing each other in the back again.

It's all fake. And everyone only sees what fits their version of the story.

It's hazardous when you can't tell a lie from the truth.

It's even more dangerous when the lie is revealed and no one even cares.

So much damage has been done that it doesn't even matter.

Politicians are in office.

Movements have been spawned.

And history rolls on, and we live within the news.