Our media industry industry operates this by virtue of Twitter. "People are saying such-and-such" and then showing a Tweet from some random nobody (i.e. 'weak

Our media industry industry operates this by virtue of Twitter. "People are saying such-and-such" and then showing a Tweet from some random nobody (i.e. 'weak man') to validate the fact - is how so many narratives are created. Or - by simply taking the tiniest, most innocuous bit of human interaction ('some guy on a plane did what?') and blowing it up into a national story, as though it is in any way representative of anything. This is how in a sea of actual facts, the general truth can easily be distorted, and they are, all day long. Part of the reason for this is because we connect with human stories, not data. Steven Spielberg's advice to Mike Bay about Transformers, was 'It should be about the relationship between a teen boy and his car'. We like Judge Judy and TMZ, just all frazzled up in ornamental ideology that makes us feel smart for reading the New Yorker. If we were really boring and sober, the world would be a different place. (I'm looking at you, German politics, which someone maintains it's sanity even with 'actual Nazis' in the midst, not these America yahoo versions.)