Being beholden to what others say is true has been a problem for me for some time. Experience is really the only teacher I trust. With everyone else, I just accept that that is what they believe, and it may or may not be true. Since, at a high level, I believe in something very different to what others believe, that divide suits me completely. The one major benefit of not simply accepting what others say is that you can never be challenged by the propaganda concept of 'fake news.' Since your own truth is your truth alone, and no one else's, whether it is seen as fake in another person's eyes is irrelevant. By the time we are adults, we should have our own individual understanding of truth anyway. Sure, it's a bonus to have friends who think alike and who agree with your truth, but at the end of the day, no two people will ever agree on everything they believe, since they've had different experiences, so believing that truth comes through agreement is foolhardy right from the get-go. I praise Max for being bold in calling out our history as a lie. If anything, it undermines the foundation that the existing elite stand upon as they continue to grow their empire on the false belief that we believe in their truth and their status as our rulers. We don't, and since they really have no way to prove their truths, they must either forsake them or be challenged for as long as they continue to stand upon them. So, who's for a regular, old fashioned empire burning? Count me in.