The lie is very successful because it is a jeep, and the truth can only travel on permitted routes and at agreed speeds. Because a lie is born of nonsense, it survives in the most extreme irrationality imaginable, while the truth is not enough to be true, it has to appear so. As lies get in your way, you must seek the truth. Lies are sold wholesale, truth is sold piecemeal. Lies justify you, while truth often questions your certainties. In reality, you may find yourself abandoned.
Is it more comforting to the soul to be a flat earther or to believe that the earth is round? Of course, being flat earthed, because it immediately gives you a sense of belonging that we who believe the Earth is round don’t have. You can’t make friends by saying left and right, they think you’re crazy.
“Of course it’s round, stupid,” they’d say, “what’s the point of that expression?”
Flat-earth groups, on the other hand, welcome you with open arms because they need improvement. Those who claim that man has never set foot on the Moon form genuine religious communities willing to drink coffee with the undecided. If you want to spend the afternoon with someone because you are alone, engage in a denial conversation and you will find a partner. There are no wild conversations advocating the obvious, for that is like preaching that day is day and night is night. Social success, on the other hand, is achieved by doing the opposite.
Rejection is, in general, a great resource for making friends. For example, people who deny the effectiveness of vaccines are given lunch together to prove themselves in their fiction. Truth is, to put it simply, boring. She doesn’t sing, she doesn’t dance, and she goes to bed early. Therefore, historically speaking, his progress has been very difficult for him.
Eppur si move.