When you grow up believing these stories, taught in schools, reinforced in media, echoed in everyday conversation, undoing them doesn’t just take learning something new. It requires unlearning everything you thought you knew.
That’s why the impact of misinformation and disinformation is so hard to challenge.
Because when a lie is wrapped in nostalgia, repetition, and collective belief, it doesn’t feel like a lie.
It feels like “common sense.”
It feels like “truth.”