Monday Morning Memes

The Greatest Lie Ever Told

Over the past few weeks I have been encountering multiple memes which make a case for some current mainstream narrative being the “Greatest Lie Ever Told.” There’s a lot of competition for that title nowadays and I could have listed 10 other options for the poll above, from the idea that people can change their biological sex to the idea that men can give birth to babies to the contagion theory of disease transmission. Some of the concepts listed above are still believed as true by a segment of my readers.

There are others, such as the Earth being flat and not a globe as we were taught, which I don’t ascribe to. I have read about flat Earth theory and although I can now wrap my head around seasonal variations under the model I still do not understand cosmic aspects including phases of the moon and eclipses. Overall it’s too simplified for me. That said could the Earth be both flat and spherical, under perhaps the particle/wave observation theory? Perhaps it depends on the behavior being measured and the observer’s point of view.

Some truths are unknowable. Others may well depend on the vantage point of the observer. For those constructed as a consensus on false learnings we’ve been taught since we were small children, however, eventually the contradictions inherent in the spun web of lies collapse the entire system.

Is the Earth overpopulated? I have been sounding the alarm since around 2005 or so that depopulation looked like a bigger concern around the corner. Some have stated that the population in China, say, is vastly overstated. I know most of the calculations were arrived at based on the huge number of young people two generations ago who were creating a built in momentum for population growth even if they had less children. That supply of young people of childbearing age has long been exhausted in all but (supposedly) Africa. Super Sally did an analysis on births and deaths in France, which show the change since 2000. As is true in many countries around the planet population growth has gone negative:

So how do we arrive at truth then, in a post trust the expert narrative world? Trust your heart and your gut first when encountering an opinion. If it sounds off to your lived experience and observations, there’s probably a reason for that. I try to use a triangulation method of multiple data points to arrive at a conclusion. A single TikTok video or carefully sculpted story posted on the Internet tells me nothing. At best it might point me in a direction to dig a little deeper.

Speaking of which in my last post garnered a lot of answers to this “genius” question.

Now my first answer to this was 96, which was arrived at by a few other commenters as well. Many arrived at the answer 40 and both it seems have mathematical formulas that work for the first three numbers and that as well. So which is “correct,” then? Perhaps some things have more than one acceptable choice.

Why can’t we all get along?

What was the biggest lie you were taught that you changed your mind about?

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