Drowning in a Maelstrom of Lies
How are we supposed to keep our heads above water?
Turn on any electronic device — television, laptop, or phone — and you will be deluged by all kinds of nonsense. Everyone wants to sell you something: a commodity, a program, or a worldview. You surf through it all until something appeals to you. Then you start drowning in a maelstrom of lies.
You don’t notice it at first. The Truth you’ve been handed seems to make perfect sense. But soon, you are swirling around the one thing that you believe in more than anything else — the one thing that you desperately want to believe. And down you go.
In the Maelstrom
We live in the Age of Misinformation, where Truth is whatever we want it to be. It is hard to imagine the world being any other way. Maybe it never was. Maybe the preachers, propagandists and advertisers have been with us ever since we first became conscious of ourselves and the world we inhabit.
While certainly there are people who are intentionally trying to deceive us, most of those waving Truth in our faces believe their own lies. They are only trying to enlighten us. They are only trying to help us see the error of our ways.
Everyone has heard the proverb: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. That…
