There was a time when reality had charm. It arrived without filters, had wrinkles of honesty, and walked with the awkward gait of facts. You could trust it, at least most of the time.

Now it is over, and the old times will only remain a flashback of memories for the elder generation and a land of fantasy for the new generation.

Reality has left the town. Permanently. In its place, we have something that pretends to be reality—dressed up, cropped, edited, AI-polished, and algorithmically blessed for maximum engagement. It looks like the truth. It sounds like the truth. But poke it once, and it wobbles like a CGI jellyfish.

Welcome to the ‘Age of the False Narrative’.

In the beginning, there was truth. Then came opinions. Soon, we had content. And now, what we worship is the narrative—grand, glowing, shareable, and usually false.

We think we discuss what has happened. However, in reality, we discuss how it’s framed. The truth is less important than the caption, tone, and tweet, and whether it aligns with the community's belief system. We live in a world where a video clip requires a trigger warning and a quote necessitates five disclaimers and a legal team to defend it.

We’ve outgrown the old Gandhian monkeys. Today, we need an upgrade.

See nothing, because it’s probably deep-faked, poorly........

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