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NEOLITHIC FAKE NEWS: HOW MYTHS HELPED US SURVIVE

By: Peter Kriger
Narrated by: Brandon Harris
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Almost nobody is lying. That is the problem.We have built an entire vocabulary around the idea that false belief is manufactured by people who know better — fake news, disinformation, propaganda, the troll farm, the bad actor. The vocabulary flatters us. It lets us imagine that somewhere behind every falsehood there is a person who could simply stop. But count the deliberate liars in your own life. There are almost none. The falsehood is everywhere and the liars are missing.The answer turns out to be old — older than writing, older than cities, older than any of the institutions we blame. Every genuine observation arrives with one thing attached that observation cannot supply: who spoke, where it happened, what caused it. And a story with a blank space in it is not a story at all. It cannot be repeated, judged, or acted upon. So the blank gets filled — not by liars, but by ordinary people doing the only thing that makes their experience shareable.From a woman at the edge of a marsh nine thousand years ago to a rumor moving through a group chat this afternoon, the machinery is identical. The observation is sound. One coordinate is guessed. And the guess, once spoken aloud, becomes something its speaker sincerely believes — because holding a lie in mind requires a double set of books, and believing your own account is simply cheaper.Along the way: why a ritual that works half the time is harder to abandon than one that always works; why a hundred prescriptions in a ceremony are a hundred remembered disappointments; why the men who built runways out of straw were reasoning correctly; why memorizing a text word for word does not preserve its meaning but destroys it; and what happened when five machines were handed the same invented story and returned five incompatible religions.And a final turn that is harder to shake off. The cost of getting this wrong has never been higher. What changed is not the price but the address.©2026 Peter Kriger (P)2026 Peter Kriger
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