Lies, Sweet Lies: What Stories Do We Believe?

It takes a significant effort to maintain delusions in people's heads - unless the people are willing to 'help the liar out.'

By: Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In the words of the WEF, “story-based media can shift social norms, values and beliefs more effectively than traditional, fact-based messaging”

• When a story is based on a lie, it takes a significant effort to maintain that lie, and the tyrants work day and night to keep their lies “alive”

• The definition of “normal” came from…