SO MUCH CONTENT, SO LITTLE TRUTH

Remember the 1970s? Let me describe it for you. A few channels on TV. A morning newspaper. Maybe a magazine or two lying around the house. Information was slower, but somehow, it felt more… solid. You’d sit down at the dinner table and someone would bring up the most important event of the day. People at least agree on what had happened that day. The facts were shared, and even if opinions differed, that was ok. It was accepted. We knew respect and also how to listen.

Fast forward to today.

We are drowning in content. Tweets. Reels. TikToks. Live updates. YouTube. Podcasts. Infinite scroll. The volume is mind-numbing. But here’s the paradox: we have more access to information than ever before… and yet we are starving for some real knowledge because we don’t know what’s true anymore.

Why? Because of the algorithms. They are the silent caretakers of our digital experience. And they have learned that it is better not to give us information that challenges us, but to feed us what we already believe. What comforts us. What confirms our biases. It’s like hiring a personal chef who only serves you your favorite dessert - morning, noon, and night. Eventually, you forget what real nutrition tastes like. What the truth tastes like.

We now live in parallel realities. Same country, same planet, totally different worlds. In one world, climate change is a hoax. In another, it’s a daily emergency. In one world, the election was stolen. In another, democracy held strong. And here's the thing,  both sides are convinced they're living in truth.

We're not just divided anymore. We're disconnected from each other’s realities. The ground beneath our collective understanding has fractured and we are falling into the abyss.

This isn’t just a tech problem. It’s a human problem. We've stopped listening. Stopped questioning. Stopped sitting with discomfort. We’ve traded curiosity for certainty. Dialogue for echo chambers. Complexity for black-and-white thinking.

And now? Now we’re raising generations who might not even know how to ask the right questions,  because they think the answers are already decided by whatever headline got the most likes.

Now, here’s what I believe: we can still turn this around. It starts with humility. With a willingness to say, “I don’t know, but I want to understand.” It starts with real conversation, face to face, soul to soul. It starts by teaching people not just to speak English, but to listen in any language. To be open. To be emotionally intelligent. To spot manipulation. To value truth over tribalism.

We don’t need more content. We need more connection. More context. More courage.

Because in a world full of noise and alternative facts, the quiet pursuit of truth, the real truth, is a revolutionary act.

Thanks for reading. Abrazos.

Diego Rojas