Seth Godin: Reality isnt optimized

Seth Godin argues that Reality isn’t optimized

Falsehoods, spin and legends can be tweaked and tested and changed to exactly match the dreams and desires of the people they’re aimed at.

This is why manipulative stories are so much stickier than what really happened.

What reality has in its favor is that it’s generally resilient. Gravity doesn’t care who believes in it. It’s still here.

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This is why conspiracy theories are so successful—they offer satisfying explanations that do not require too much thinking as they rely on confirmation bias. Reality is far more messy and much more difficult to explain.