The Bias in What We Think Is the Truth

The reason why today's views are highly subjective is because the only thing that most people see is what they're already looking for and prepared to accept.

For this reason, when shit happens, the ones who are not a part of us or ours tend to be held in the wrong until proven above suspicion, which is as difficult as impossible because we hardly seek evidence to reason us out of that presumption of guilt.

Today, as if mere manmade constructs, virtue can become a vice or the other way round, as and when we find it convenient. What is true is usually what we want to accept as true. For instance: I read something on the internet and it supports my prejudice, ‘it’s definitely true.’ But when it doesn’t, ‘man, not everything you read online is true.’

This is why most of us find comfort among those who agree with us, like Samuel L. Jackson was to Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained. You call them friends - I call them shadows, because they duck when you bow, nod as you nod, echo what you say, hate the people you don’t like, and like the ones you love regardless. The backside is, when all your light sources go dim, shadows like that disappear.