The problem is that the tactics work best for fake stories, because they can be pre-loaded and coordinated. True news is worked out between competing outlets and breaks messily.
Fake stories are also quicker to write. Truth requires careful research, which takes time. Fake news can be written as fast as fingers can strike the keyboard.
Fake stories can be tuned for maximal appeal to people's existing opinions, preconceptions and prejudices. Truth has a habit of telling us things other than what we want to hear.
Actually there are a lot of reasons for dead people apparently coming back. Burying bodies so they stay down is actually a big effort for most cultures, wild animals and weather conditions can easily pull a body from a shallower grave and redeposit it somewhere else. Add that to the tendency of bodies to continue to change after death, or at least appear to (gums receding looks like teeth growing, etc.) and it's not hard to see how people in earlier culture s might get the impression that the dead are up and walking around. Factor in also how diseases can take members of a family or others close to the dead person invisibly, and, well...
Disagree -- agriculturists & hunter-gatherers are way more familiar with death than moderns because they slaughtered their own livestock. We don't even experience human birth & death at home; it's packaged for us by hospitals and funeral parlors.
The basic anatomical knowledge in a society where everyone has killed a goat is arguably higher than industrialized 2017 where we get our steaks pre-cut.
I'd be interested in an argument that says wealthy, artistic, anatomically modern humans in the stone or bronze age aren't aware of the symbolic content of their death rituals. But I haven't heard one yet.
As someone with ADHD, I have spent a lot of my life trying to have more grit. In fact, I did make it through some difficult programs, the navy nuclear power program and Georgetown Law, prior to being diagnosed. But I always came across like I wasn't trying. I wanted desperately to try, but didn't understand that my mind couldn't just add grit on demand. (though if I managed to get myself in enough of a bind, the adrenaline did help). Somewhere along the line (before being diagnosed), I came to see things like grit as a moral judgement--one that I consistently failed.
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