So of course people who see this express despair. When you first punch through the lies and start to gain an understanding of what's really going on, it can be really unpleasant at first. It feels like what it probably felt like to be a lucid thinker back in much less enlightened times when civilization was dominated by religion and superstition. Lonely. Depressing. As Terence McKenna said, "The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation."

But it gets better. Or at least it does if you allow it to. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Don't Have To Choose Between Happiness And Being Informed

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.