What Is The Lie?
About podcasts, legacy media, fake news and the information revolution
We hear from voices in our headThat the television's deadWe listen more than ever To podcasters instead We hear them through our ear podsArriving by bluetoothWe dwell in conversationsAbsorbing other people's truth An information revolution Flooding our mainstream Where anyone from anywhereCan be anything they dream Lengthy conversationsA new philosophy Absorbing so much content Like a flooding estuary So many different voicesSo many ways to be So many arguments and anglesProviding different ways to see We can see the world more broadlyIess inclined to get annoyedNot information overload But the filling of a void From these conversations We change in many waysWe no longer see in black and whiteFor these are complicated days More nuance in our thinkingMore balance in our viewsSuddenly we're questioningEvery column in the news Why are we being told this?What are they motivated by?Where did this data come from? If this is truth, what is the lie? What lies within their sentencesThat we should hold onto or discard?Making sense of almost anythingIs becoming very hard But if you listen very carefullyYou'll find so much is in dusguiseHow much better is the world todayWith all this info in the skies?