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Preview: Our Strange Relationship With the Truth
Every Christmas, loving parents deliberately deceive their children.
They eat the cookies. Move the presents. Invent the evidence.
And everyone calls it magic.
That may tell us something important about human nature.
We say we want the truth—but when truth threatens comfort, identity, religion, politics, family, or power, we often choose the story instead.
In this episode, we explore why humans cling to comforting narratives, why institutions protect certain beliefs while punishing others, and why we are always shocked when reality finally breaks through.
Because maybe the real question…
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