Our Perception Of Truth is Warping, As Print Literacy Fades
The printing press gave us objective truth.
Social media made truth tribal again.
AI could make it something else entirely.
Before literacy, people’s perception of truth was grounded in “lived experience,” tribal or individual. Facts were defined situationally, tested by outcomes, and stored in personal and collective memory. Collective memory was more durable than any individual’s, but it still bent toward what people needed to be true. With no external record to hold it fixed, the past could quietly reshape itself to fit the present.
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