A very small substance
The truth is a very small substance of all information in the world.
First of all, it's costly. If you want want to write a truthful account of anything you need to research, you need to gather evidence, to fact check, to analyze. That's very costly in terms of time and money and effort. Fiction is very cheap. You just write the first things that comes to your mind.
The truth is also often very complicated because reality is complicated, whereas fiction can be made as simple as you would like it to be, and and people prefer usually simple stories.
And finally the truth can be painful. Whether the truth about us personally, my relationships, what I've done to other people, to myself or entire nations or culturs — whereas fiction you can you can make it as attractive as flattering as you would like it to be.
So in this competition between truth and and fiction and fantasy truth is at a huge disadvantage.
If you just flood the world with information most information will not be the truth, and in this ocean of information if you don't give the truth some help some edge the truth tends to sink to the bottom, not rise to the top.
First of all, it's costly. If you want want to write a truthful account of anything you need to research, you need to gather evidence, to fact check, to analyze. That's very costly in terms of time and money and effort. Fiction is very cheap. You just write the first things that comes to your mind.
The truth is also often very complicated because reality is complicated, whereas fiction can be made as simple as you would like it to be, and and people prefer usually simple stories.
And finally the truth can be painful. Whether the truth about us personally, my relationships, what I've done to other people, to myself or entire nations or culturs — whereas fiction you can you can make it as attractive as flattering as you would like it to be.
So in this competition between truth and and fiction and fantasy truth is at a huge disadvantage.
If you just flood the world with information most information will not be the truth, and in this ocean of information if you don't give the truth some help some edge the truth tends to sink to the bottom, not rise to the top.
Kara Swisher & Yuval Noah Harari on Tech Bros, Witches & the Information Flood. Yuval Noah Harari. October 16, 2024. At 10:58.