Everyday I’m faced with a choice between saying something comforting or delivering the facts. Many years ago I was introduced to a book, and a movement of sorts, titled, “Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong”. It started me on a journey of discovery.

I guess this idea of investigation and moving information on the pathways of the modern internet is, for me, about the most important thing happening today.

I don’t know how many people are completely unaware of the facts about medicine, government, war, science, religion and “Everything Else We Think We Know” but it’s substantial. Enough so that millions of people are laying hope for their future on some political election. Millions of people think our wars may be justified and so on.

So everyday I’m faced with the unpopular choice of saying to friends, family and readers – Look at this, that’s not real, no that’s just a story etc. It gets old, for me and for others. But what choice do I have? Really? I don’t see that I have one. I do sometimes not say anything. I get tired of it.

The thing about finding things out is it destroys all those comforting fantasies we lived in. It tears up the family, the social circle, maybe messes up our career, most likely ruins our life. But what kind of a life is a life based on make believe?

After the initial unraveling it gets better for us personally. But we still have to deal with what is gone. Like I said, it’s a choice.