Status Updates From Facts and Other Lies: Welco...

I thought it was only Finland that wasn't real? I'm happy to add in Australia

Now that we're onto conspiracy theories are like cults, will the next step be that other widespread, partisan, tribal, all of the above belief system - religion.

Cult + time = religion = conspiracy theory + time

"The motivation to conform is stronger than the motivation to be right."

ie. we're screwed...

"No one, apparently, ever believed that organized lying could be an adequate weapon against truth" - Hannah Arendt, 1960s

"An inconvenient fact was exposed for those who had made a living off reporting the news: it doesn't sell."

Religion is a "crackpot conspiracy theory" that's always been mainstream

"The truth, even as it was in the ascendancy, was never evenly distributed. When we see a decline in reason, perhaps we are only witnessing an incline in the number of people able to be heard."

"Very little of our world is actually objective."

The farce is well and truly upon us