The Truth Is Out There. So What?

Knowing isn't the hard part anymore.

Photo by Rich Tervet on Unsplash

News cycles are strange things. They roar into being, flood the zone, and somehow still feel like they’re only happening to a specific set of people—usually the ones trying to prove something about a country they no longer seem in touch with.

There’s a reason public trust in “the media” remains low. People aren’t dumb. They know inequality shapes who gets held accountable and who gets to walk away untouched. At this point, coordinated efforts to “expose wrongdoing” feel more like group therapy sessions for the professionally anxious than moments of reckoning. After years of failed coups, jury convictions of former presidents, and disinformation campaigns that unraveled global solidarity, it’s hard to pretend that one more scandal, however grotesque, will fix anything.

Maybe I’m jaded. Or maybe I’ve just accepted what others are still trying not to say out loud.