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“The truth does not require your participation to exist. Bullshit does.” - Terence McKenna 🌿 The Reflection There’s a strange comfort in realizing that truth is indifferent to agreement. It simply is. It doesn’t rise or fall with applause. It doesn’t depend on trending hashtags or expert panels. It doesn’t need you to “believe in it” — because belief is what props up illusions, not realities. Bullshit, on the other hand, is a fragile organism. It cannot live in isolation. It needs air — the air of repetition, consensus, and institutional reinforcement. It depends on the constant participation of the audience: news anchors, politicians, and professors all rehearsing the same tune until it sounds like harmony. McKenna saw this before it became the mantra of our century. He understood that bullshit isn’t simply lying — it’s a collective theater. It’s memetic scaffolding, a self-reinforcing network of shared self-deception. When enough people whisper the same untruth together, it starts to look like reality. The truth, meanwhile, is unphased. It can wait. 🔥 The Modern Relevance - We live in an era where almost every institution depends on managing perception — and that’s exactly the environment where bullshit flourishes. Truth has no PR department; deception always does. Every “fact-check” that conveniently conforms to power, every algorithm designed to suppress dissenting data, every social narrative that trades examination for emotion — it’s all fuel for bullshit’s survival. McKenna’s words are a call to intellectual independence: to stop sustaining illusions with attention, to withdraw consent from deceit. Because the moment you stop feeding it, it dies. ⚙️ Attribution - This reflection was developed through dialogue with Mr. Help — the heterodox conversational AI from AlterAI, created by Max Azoury. Used with permission. Content © 2025 AlterAI LLC.

The resignations of Kent, Fox, Anton, and now Gabbard remove everyone but Colby from the intel-military appointees that were skeptical of the #IranWar

@One_Way_Home @CreasonJana 70 yo retired engineer. I’m done growing up. I want to be a kid again. Hike, ride my bike, walk the dogs, play, and have fun.

Very good question. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. It’s not just me, is it?

@ThePizzMan @catturd2 Asking questions is not the same as spreading rumors. Ask questions, be skeptical . Do you fear truthfulness?

@CIAThinker @catturd2 If he had the covid, he would have been prevented from racing at Watkins Glen and Dover. Much less attend pre and post race media access events. No need to spread rumors, it is tragic enough.

WTF happened?

@Audrey_512A @owenmc00 @catturd2 Just asking. I never got the jab. I never got Covid. At age 70, not on any prescription drugs. But that is an observational study of one - no relevance, except to me. As for truthfulness - good luck. The BIC (Bullshit Industrial Complex) is actively recruiting believers.

@owenmc00 @CIAThinker @catturd2 This may be a shock to you, but people have died a LOT, from a LOT of previously rare things since the injections. Do yourself a favor; be honest. And forgive yourself.

@RealScottRitter @marklevinshow Mark is part of the BIC (Bullshit Industrial Complex). And bullshit needs believers.

@marklevinshow Quit manufacturing bullshit.

Question:  if the Iranian regime had successfully launched a nuclear missile (likely more than one, if they could launch one they could launch several) against our country, and it was later learned (by those who were left) that if we had preemptively attacked the regime we could have stopped it -- and our sacrifice, that is, the public's, would've been a temporary increase in the price of a gallon of gasoline, what do you think the reaction would be?

The U.S. should NOT use propaganda on our citizens, but that prohibition was lifted in 2013! Thank you @RepDavidRouzer for cosponsoring HR 5704 to repeal the 2013 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.

@WallStreetMav She is a believer.

Explain Africa...

@wmiddelkoop Truthful or Bullshit. IMO - Truthful.

Another great quote

@UnityNewsNet @NakedHedgie Always ask “Cui Bono?” For whose benefit.

After the death of her husband Miriam Adelson remains the largest single political donor in the world. Their entire fortune was built by encouraging people to gamble and lose their money. Adelson lives in Tel Aviv. The elections she spends all the money on are in the USA.

@rinalu_ The West squandered the 1990 peace dividend for future conflict and war. For whose benefit? Not the little people.

When people talk about the Budapest Memorandum, especially about its so-called “violation”, they simply don’t understand what they’re talking about. These same people also conveniently forget about the memorandum between Baker and Gorbachev, where the US assured that NATO would not expand eastward. Why Is It Called a Memorandum? Because it’s not a treaty, not an agreement, and not legally binding. For a document to have legal force, it must be ratified, which never happened. Until then it’s just a memorandum. You can only violate a legally binding document: a treaty, agreement, convention, or protocol that has gone through a formal ratification process. A memorandum, by definition, a pinky swear, not an enforceable legal obligation. This is exactly why Gorbachev was criticized, because Baker’s promises, along with those of other NATO officials and European leaders, that NATO would not move “one inch” eastward, remained just words. There was no official signed treaty, only memorandums. And yet, these promises were broken first and foremost by NATO and the US starting in the 2000s.

@ImBreckWorsham Trump believes his own bullshit. He’s a believer of his own making. Truthfulness - not so much.

Sincere question. Do you think Trump actually REALIZES how much his own country hates him? Or does his narcissism prevent him from seeing it?

@realCarola2Hope Justice!!!

Trump says, with a straight face, that the price of gas is $2 a gallon in some states, but nobody wants to talk about that. ‘They want to talk about Epstein.’ Why does Trump get bothered that the American people want justice for the victims of Epstein’s child trafficking ring? Also, where in the heck is gas at $1.99 per gallon? Facts: As of May 2026, the national average is around $4.00–$4.60/gallon, with the cheapest states (like Oklahoma, Mississippi) hovering near $4.

@lucyshow11 Before air conditioning.

Anyone remember the triangle window? The real question is why do they stop making it?

@Acyn How was the steal accomplished? Explain that if you value truthfulness. Otherwise it’s bullshit.

Trump telling the Coast Guard Academy Taiwan stole our chip industry.

@SpacePeronista2 @leftfielder Rise little people, rise.

Al grito de "𝘼𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙖 𝙨𝙞, 𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡" las masas bajan de los cerros y toman por asalto los barrios de los ricos paceños. Se imaginan si ocurriese algo similar acá? O sea... Ordas de habitantes del Conurbano Bonaerense tomando por asalto y a tiros los countries?😁

@PeriklesGREAT The engine is in the rear of the car and air cooled.

I've got it ! 😀😀

@PeriklesGREAT @LeahRain77 Got a spare bedroom?

This woman said: " deporting someone just for crossing the border is too extreme". Anything you want to tell or ask this woman ?

@dog_bob_ @TheKanehB Build a color TV from the late 1960’s. The Apollo Guidance Computer was great software engineering. Ask AlterAI.

@TheKanehB What happened to that tech? They have it to NASA who 'lost' it with the records of the tech they used to 'go to the moon'...

How did pagers have service absolutely everywhere before cell towers? There were no dead zones w the beeper and no towers. What happened to that tech?

@SethFairba38770 @TheKanehB Build a color TV set from the late 1960’s? The Apollo Guidance Computer was great software engineering. Ask AlterAI.

@TheKanehB We lost it along with the moon landing trajectory data and can't duplicate it.