The Longest Game of Telephone: How Reality Gets Created
The Longest Game of Telephone: How Reality Gets Created Remember that game from school. One kid whispers a sentence into another kid’s ear. It goes around the room. By the time it reaches the last person, the message has mutated into something unrecognizable. In junior high it took maybe 20 kids and five minutes for “Mrs. Johnson likes apple pie” to become “Mrs. Johnson sells drugs backstage at an AC/DC concert.” That wasn’t just a classroom game. That was a rehearsal. Human reality is built the same way. Reality Is a Story That’s Been Retold Too Many Times Most of what we call “reality” is not something we personally verified. It’s something we heard. History, religion, politics, family identity, cultural norms, even your idea of who you are were passed down to you through other humans. Humans who were shaped by fear, love, trauma, power, survival, and imagination. A message whispered across: generations languages wars empires belief systems personal agendas …doesn’t ar...