Welcome to what's really going on.
Following good disinformation practice, I accept that probably one third of the information I take to be true is probably purposefully false (i.e. disinformation), a second third is likely just an error of judgement on my part, leaving me to actually know only one third of all the things I think I know.
So here's my good list, a filing cabinet of bits and bytes that seem to add up to I don't know what.
--Shannon, CE (1948): A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27: 379–423
The whole life of those societies in which modern conditions of production prevail presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
--Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Mythopoeia
Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme
of things not found within recorded time.
It is not they that have forgot the Night,
or bid us flee to organized delight,
in lotus-isles of economic bliss
forswearing souls to gain a Circe-kiss
(and counterfeit at that, machine-produced,
bogus seduction of the twice-seduced).
--J. R. R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by a majority of the people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad."
--C. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
In a world that really has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.
--Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle