The truth doesn’t need a loud presence with mind-numbing decibels blasting from it to be heard. Lies need a megaphone in order to be repeated loud enough and long enough to start sounding like the truth, they are counting on your long term exposure to it to cloud your judgement – like a kid screaming to make you give up and just give him/her what they want. Since chaos of fabrication, misguided information and on them constructed narratives and systems have no internal logic in their core they have to hope to suffocate the truth, and the best way is – yell louder.

The rule of thumb when you are unsure of what’s true or not in large or complex systems is – be skeptical to the thing that is violently and explicitly presented, this is in most cases a lie disguised as truth. Put this to the test in multiple situations: political campaigns for example – the one yelling the loudest has the least to say, spends most of his energy on cosmetics and demagogy, the one that has a real intention of using his position to do something will speak calmly, simply and openly, no masking, no attacks, his energy will go into the work not showmanship; open a magazine, the bigger the lie they are selling you the more flashy pictures it has and less content, the bigger the lie the more media space it takes up – youth is beauty and it can be enslaved with our cream, mascara, blush, hair dye… you are too fat, too thin, too much of this or too little of that, you don’t have nearly enough stuff, you really do need this new juicer, how could you have ever lived your life up to now without it, popular opinion is right just by sheer volume of people who believe it and you should to; excuses with too much unnecessary detail, too loud moans in sex…

The louder something screams in your face the bigger the chance they are not screaming to convince you but to convince themselves as well, thereby justifying what they are doing. When you know you are right and are doing something good you don’t need pats on the head, confirmations or congratulations in neon lights. Working on it and creating something beneficial and worthwhile for all brings its own rewards. Truth has no need for loudness.