Distinguishing between reality and fluff

Caitlin's sage advice on how to know the underlying reality versus the corporate spin machines that intentionally obfuscates that reality. Look to where the money is going: corporations and the rich. Notice where the resources are, like oil, and how the 1% overlook any faults (like genocide) to court those countries where it is. Notice where the US is placing military bases, which tell us about our real intentions. Watch the refugees, which tells us about where major human rights abuses are, and who created those conditions in the first place.

Then my advice: Focus on the facts, not on the fake stories we are fed. But humans need story to understand and process facts. So we can and must create narratives based on the facts. Such stories, based in reality, help us to understand and do something about the liars and cheaters that are the source of our problems in the first place. This is why those forces hate the truth so much, and will do everything in their power to silence it. We the people must do everything in our power to disseminate the truth with powerful and effective narrative lest we descend into the sort of fascism they seek. Our very lives depend on it, and that's the truth.