Truth is expensive, lies are cheap

In a world addicted to speed, cheap and dramatic, taking the time to establish truth is slow, expensive, time-consuming, and costly.

People would rather not make that investment in seeking truth. 

Give me the quick hit, the drama hook, the scroll.

Our current world is soaked in fiction. Lies are the currency of power, backed by systems tripping over themselves with sycophancy to keep the power in power.

Truth is hard, scary. Asking questions to expose truth comes at a high price, even the price of your life.

At the micro scale, here is how this plays out. You hear a story about a friend or colleague. It is spicy and dramatic. You take the story without any investigation. You assign your colleague as guilty as charged, without the right of reply. Only they are not, in truth. The story edits out all of the context. 

At the level of an activist, you see a genocide live-streamed on every media platform. Inarguable. Thousands and thousands and thousands of women and children slaughtered. You speak about this, as you and anyone with humanity would. You call out the system underpinning this atrocity. And you lose your job. In some places, you get arrested and charged with a crime for uttering words or holding a placard. 

We are not making telling the truth any easier. Far from it, we are making truth a relic of some past time. For to speak truth exposes the entire system and platform upon which those in power have built their lives.

Our courts have been captured. The media is lost. Our institutions eroded. In Australia, the government set up the first Anti-Corruption Commission and appointed its first leader, and the leader was corrupt. Not a great start.

Syntropic World is dedicated to truth. It is the harder road to take.

Published August 7th 2026. Photo taken August 7th 2026