whose side are you on?

 Plato said: “Those who tell stories rule society”. I could see the truth in this. Everything we believe is in a sense a story. Our ideologies,  theologies, science etc. are narrations of some sort. Of course science is different to mythologies, math is no theologies but still they all have narrations of some degree. 

In our world of social media the stories of the winners is the truth. That is why people compete for twitter taglines, viral videos and memes. If you could flood the internet with your version of story you could expect that most people would believe your version more than other's. 

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently

Of course some people would lie but of course they would say they were focusing of their sides of the story and ignoring the things against their narration. So the challenge for us - the consumers, the ones whose opinion to be persuaded - is to be critical. We all are bias unfortunately and hence it is not easy for us to check all the facts. We might not have time nor resources to do so. 

I could see for example that people would have different opinions about the war in Ukraine. Some condemn the Russia other would see differently (for example that when the US invaded other country many would turned the other way). Of course there many facets of the story and each of us tend to focus on the one that interests us the most. Myself, I would focus on the suffering of the civilians, on the refugees, on those who lost their lives. Some would argue that those are the cost of international politics which I am sure were said be those who are sitting comfortably miles from the war (like me).