Why do people believe in lies?

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It protects their ego from having to acknowledge the nature of reality.

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many people lie , to further their careers ..... at all costs .

Evolution is to blame. Evolution is the reason why the majority of people continue to believe outrageous lies and myths even after being repeatedly shown stacks of heavyweight evidence.

The majority of humans are programmed by their genes to create a distorted alternate reality inside their heads. Mentally, they do not live in the real world. Why did evolution do this? Because it was favorable to reproduction. Delusional thinking tended to increase the number of offspring and the survival rate.

This is difficult for us to understand today because, although the modern civilized world is a barbaric piece of s**t to be ashamed of, it's very good in comparison to a few hundred years ago and all human history prior. Nowadays, in 1st-world and 2nd-world countries, we can hardly comprehend how extremely terrible life was in the past, hundreds of years ago. We still suffer a lot today (more than we realize), but our ancestors suffered far more.

What stopped our ancestors from committing suicide? A few hundred years ago, life was so extremely bad that most people would have been expected to suicide, but they didn't. Why? What kept them alive despite the horrors of life? Answer: The distorted alternate reality inside their heads. The horrors were deleted or downsized in the alternate reality.

During the last million years, whenever evolution produced a mutation that caused a person to be born without the distorted alternate reality in his/her head, then this person suicided, thus the genes for seeing reality were kept out of the human genome.

Right Rotter.
Evolution is the force/mechanism that creates everything. Evolution is a blind process, just like human behavior.
The fact that humans have ever come to possess the ability to lie will undoubtedly have an evolutionary advantage to the left or to the right. The characteristic of lying does not just appear out of the blue, there is an underlying cause behind it. In addition to the ability to lie, some people also have the ability to expose liars. Evolution is also not based at all on whether something is true or not. To blame evolution for something is not addressed in the blind process in its blind mechanism, evolution itself doesn't care. We are stardust in The Matrix.

One of the mechanisms of this kinda stuff is perpetrated by our governments that not only manipulate the truth
But actually manufacture propaganda that it is expected that the masses will accede to . And then bolster their
Corrupt fabrication by creating circumstances in support of it . Sometimes many little circumstances , sometimes
Major ones involving many peoples deaths . Then it becomes very hard to see the actual truth of the matter .
Sometimes there can be many levels of manipulation . Then if you point out the facts , you become a conspiracy
Theorist .

I'm late to the party but I'm stumped on why people believe in lies as well. I have a friend who believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories, even though their are holes in those theories, and I have a friend who believes in the moon landing being faked even though there are holes in that one too I find.

But why believe in something so strongly? It's not like he is connected to to space exploration in anyway really, so why take it so personally, to the point where you are going to through rationale out the window...

but I don't see how landing on the moon is an inconvenient truth though. How does that inconvenience people who had nothing to do with it?