Long time readers of this blog know - Realization is the Fix. Now is the world realization happening. Fake News is a good thing.
Recently Fake News has become a popular phrase and so people think it is a new phenomenon. It is not. There never was News, there only lived Fake News, this is the first time in human civilization that the entire human race is realizing that we all lived for 1000s of years in era of fake news. Fake News is not a creation of Media, TV, Blogs, News Websites, or Social Media, it is a creation of humans since time immemorial. In 'Information Age' when data is generated and consumed more quickly than ever, and entire world is connected ....it finally caught up with us! We don't get the truth we get what we want, and we want what we are fed to believe and it is a cycle.
During stone age, Stone Man-1 told the Stone Man-2 - he saw a monster, when all he saw was a tree in the wind! We live till day talking about the fake news of a monster. Religions got created and impossible stories of men doing magic tricks and being voice of creator of universe were consumed. Countries were created and Fake News of your own country's men being the brave, wise and just and the similar men in enemy camp being cowards, stupid and evil was passed down from generation to generation. TV and Newspapers came way later, of coarse carrying fake news controlled by governments and rich people. Customs and traditions got created based on 'Fake News'. That was an is the best and cheapest way to control the masses. Women who wanted equality became 'witches' and minorities kept on getting marginalized due to 'fake news'. All regions have fake stories regarding various things circulated in that region which make the culture of that region.
Our entire human civilization is built on fake news, it is nothing new. What has happened is, we have realized we are all living in a lie! Obviously I am not delirious in thinking that we live in special times, and suddenly all humans will stop being 'humans', that is - full of bias and ego. But now it is increasingly difficult for small section of people to hold a fake belief and not being called out for it.
It happens daily. The moment a piece of News comes by - 'someone said something', the next minute someone corrects you on your WhatsApp or Facebook or Twitter backlash follows calling it out as 'fake news'. Obviously world is complicated and things won't change overnight. But this probably is beginning on the end of 'Fake News' after all - Realization is the Fix.
