The Most Famous Book No One Ever Read

How groupthink comes to the masses

When I ask people how they know humans are destroying the earth and how they know that human-generated CO2 is causing catastrophic climate change, I never get a straight answer. No one ever tells me about a book or a paper. I ask for the one thing that tells them we are headed for a catastrophic future, and I never get a straight answer. They “just know,” because, well, everyone knows, right? It’s just common sense and common knowledge. There is no f*cking way the UN, NASA, Yale, Harvard, the New York Times, National Geographic, the EPA, and all the other experts in the world could possibly have gotten climate change wrong. So they go with the consensus, rather than learn any science.

That’s why I dedicate this post to two important books and one not-so-famous book.

Everybody Lies

Everybody Lies, written by a Google researcher, exposes humans for what they really are: lying porn-seekers. Using data from Google searches, he contrasts what we type into Google with what we post on social media, and the difference is very telling.

Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullshit

My second enjoyable book by Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullshit goes into the history of lying, from age 2 to farmer’s almanacs to the invention of advertising and much more. An easy read or listen, and very worth the time spent.

I, Libertine

A story of a book that made a huge hit in the US, a book everyone read, a book that had both detractors and huge fans, and yet no one could have read it, because no one ever wrote it.

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