Drowning in a Maelstrom of Lies

How are we supposed to keep our heads above water?

Walt McLaughlin
The Philosophy Hub
Published in
5 min readMar 24, 2024

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Turn on any electronic device — television, laptop, or phone — and you will be deluged by all kinds of nonsense. Everyone wants to sell you something: a commodity, a program, or a worldview. You surf through it all until something appeals to you. Then you start drowning in a maelstrom of lies.

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Walt McLaughlin
The Philosophy Hub

Philosopher of wildness, writing about the divine in nature, being human, and backcountry excursions.