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It took me 20 years to realize that the “First Day First Show” movie celebrations I grew up admiring weren’t spontaneous fan frenzies at all—they were sponsored spectacles, carefully choreographed by producers, directors, or the hero’s team.
It took me 25 years to understand that search results aren’t arranged by relevance or merit alone. The ones at the top often get there simply because someone paid for the privilege.
It took me 30 years to realize that star ratings, reviews, and feedback on e-commerce platforms—things I once trusted blindly—can be bought in bulk, manufactured overnight, and manipulated at scale.
It took me 35 years to grasp that millions of views, likes, and followers on social media don’t necessarily indicate quality or influence. Many are purchased, automated, or inflated by bots.
It took me 40 years to understand that nearly 98% of the content on the internet is shaped, influenced, or driven by some form of propaganda—pro or anti—aligned with a particular ideology, product, belief, or agenda.
And yet, after all these years of lessons, I still don’t know how many more years it will take for me to fully distinguish reality from fabrication—to quickly identify what’s genuine and what’s engineered… not just in digital spaces, but in real life too.
Because today, truth isn’t just harder to find.
It is harder to recognize.
We live in a world where:
authenticity can be manufactured,
trust can be purchased,
popularity can be simulated,
opinions can be influenced invisibly, and
narratives can be seeded at scale.
The lines between organic and orchestrated, real and rehearsed, truth and targeting are blurring faster than we can adapt.
But maybe the answer doesn’t lie in becoming cynical or paranoid.
Maybe it lies in developing a new form of literacy—a reality literacy—where we constantly question, examine, cross-check, and slow down long enough to think before we trust.
I still don’t know how many years it will take me to master that skill.
But acknowledging the problem is perhaps the first honest step toward clarity in an increasingly artificial world.
~ Mohan Krishnamurthy
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