I don't want the truth
I spent the night driving to the Ukrainian border, picking up the refugees who made it through the border and bringing them to our house. It is mind-blowing how different the reality is from what we see on Twitter and in the media, how much more complex, nuanced and tangled it is then the black-and-white propaganda and Twitter activists' outrage from both sides. Some of the refugees are on the Russians' side. Most of the pictures and videos that went viral do not represent what they went viral for (and sometimes even the opposite). It is mind-blowing how much more complex the reality is than the media news feeds carefully curated to feed their respective audiences what makes them feel right. And how happy those audiences are about it and how readily they would filter out anything that might challenge the reality they have constructed for themselves. I am the same. None of us want the truth, I certainly have had enough of it for today.