The thing that makes ideas spread is not good/bad or truth/lie, it's whether people find them useful or comforting to believe. The truth has no chance in the "m

The thing that makes ideas spread is not good/bad or truth/lie, it's whether people find them useful or comforting to believe. The truth has no chance in the "marketplace of ideas" against comforting lies that reinforce people's feelings of superiority and infallibility.