Antlers and Human Arms Vs Stock Market and Politics:Which Will America Choose?

By Kevin Crump

If you sided with baby antlers and human hand dolphins, who could blame you? If you sided with the opposition however... Well, then you may or may not lack imagination is all (Which is perfectly ok)!

When you think about the options you are given to see in terms of entertainment, which would you rather see? Which packs a tale behind it?

When it comes to these phenomena in all different forms of coverage, we tend to see what we want to. We form paranormalism around basic ideas and concepts to trick our brains into feeling as though there is something more to the basic understanding of the world. Does it work? Hell, yes!

Fake news spreads faster than true stories and when they do, they are more entertaining, more enticing to our minds. With false rumors and stories wiring our brain at just a click away, we indulge ourselves in information that is above our normal perceptions of humanity and believe superstitions, folklore, legends, fables, etcetera. To say clearer, information that is fictional appeals to us for a reason.

Some good examples of this from many years prior but are still a main benefactor of today is the existence mythical creatures, and mythology itself. Beliefs many centuries ago made mythology a reality, and now we can look back at it and think about how unnatural and unrealistic something like the image below is. But we still look to it, admire it, and understand why it isn't real. We admire the fact that we can enjoy the fiction of the world in the form of these stories.

Forming from this folklore, come today's version! Think of tall tales dumbed down to modern terms. Where, instead of Ra, the Egyptian god of the sun, we have... well... we have this.

This, in terms, are our modern-day myths that we devour whole heartedly. We can look at this, know it's fake, yet still believe that it lives out wilderness somewhere like bigfoot and make others become believers of it.

References:

- Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office. (n.d.). Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved February 25, 2022, from https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-twitter-false-news-travels-faster-true-stories-0308

- Adam WaytzMorris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics & Decision in Management; Professor of Management and Organizations. (2019, May 10). The psychology behind Fake News. Kellogg Insight. Retrieved February 25, 2022, from https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the-psychology-behind-fake-news

- Britt, R. R. (2008, August 18). Monsters, ghosts and gods: Why we believe. LiveScience. Retrieved February 28, 2022, from https://www.livescience.com/5046-monsters-ghosts-gods.html