The New Reality Layers

• Truth Inflation: Every topic now has three versions: official, alternative and algorithmically optimized.
• Manufactured outrage: The fastest-growing media sector. If it doesn’t enrage, it doesn’t engage.
• Hyperreality: AI-generated faces cry on cue, influencers simulate authenticity, and audiences pretend to believe both.

We used to worry about living in a post-truth world. The real problem is simpler: we live in a world with too many truths, and none of them cost anything to produce.

The Illusion of Clarity

• Politics: Every side now claims moral superiority while outsourcing thinking to PR agencies and sentiment dashboards.
• Media: Headlines are no longer written for humans, but for recommendation engines hungry for volatility.
• Society: Outrage cycles reset faster than attention spans. Yesterday’s scandal is today’s warm-up.

The Only Question That Matters

In a world where everything is loud, curated, manipulated or automated - what does *real understanding* even look like?

And more importantly: how much of what you believe is truly yours - and how much was gently placed there by someone who needed you to think it?