The Prerequisite of Truth: Fact-Checking as a Way of Life

Truth does not exist in a vacuum. It is not some mystical force floating in space, waiting to be found. Truth is built. It is assembled piece by piece, like a puzzle, with facts as the foundation. Without facts, truth collapses into speculation, bias, and emotion-driven illusion.

For years, I lived under the illusion that my beliefs were based on reality, when in fact, they were merely echoes of what I had been told. I had never truly investigated the evidence. I had never analyzed the trade-offs. And herein lies the danger: believing that something should be a certain way without first understanding why it isn't.

This is the problem of the modern mind. We are quick to assume, slow to investigate. We speak before we research. We react before we analyze. And that is why misinformation spreads faster than truth—because truth requires work.

The Discipline of Seeking Truth: How I Extract Data, Cross-Examine Evidence, and Build Reality

Just recently, I have made it my mission to construct a factual, data-intensive manufacturing machine. Extracting truth is not a passive act—it demands relentless effort, discipline, and an unshakable commitment to reality.

I wake up at 3 AM every morning and do not stop until 11 PM.

• I dive deep into empirical evidence and hard data.

• I cross-examine sources, ensuring that my information is not cherry-picked to fit an agenda.

• I analyze historical records, economic principles, and the frameworks that govern society.

• I challenge my own biases by studying opposing viewpoints, including Marxist theories, economic criticisms, and perspectives I fundamentally disagree with.

• I absorb intellectual giants—Thomas Sowell, F.A. Hayek, Victor Davis Hanson, Walter Williams, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others—to dissect knowledge at its deepest levels.

I don’t just consume information. I weaponize it.

Facts vs. Truth: Understanding the Difference

Most people conflate facts with truth, but they are not the same thing.

• Facts are raw, indisputable pieces of reality. They are objective.

• Truth is the interpretation of those facts. It is how they are structured, contextualized, and applied.

Most people cherry-pick facts to support their pre-packaged agenda. I refuse. I start from reality, let truth expose itself, and adjust accordingly.

I don’t manipulate. I don’t distort. I don’t build narratives based on assumptions—I build them based on data.

How My Way of Thinking Transitioned to Acknowledging Facts and Re-Establishing My Truth

"I satisfy my curiosity, and my curiosity takes me to all sorts of places." - Daniel Day Lewis

My study of the polymath Daniel Day-Lewis is what put me on the path of curiosity. And that curiosity journey is what led me to economics. Economics, in turn, introduced me to fact-checking, digging into empirical evidence, and refusing to accept anything without solid data. But it was that one phrase from Daniel Day-Lewis that changed my way of thinking. When I allowed my curiosity to consume me, it navigated me into an entirely new world—one I never knew existed.

This personal example of my thought process on free healthcare and free education is a testament to that transformation.

Why Free Healthcare and Free Education Are Economic Illusions

As recently stated: I once believed in free healthcare and education. I was deeply convicted. But conviction without research is merely disguised ignorance.

As I followed the money, studied economic systems, and analyzed trade-offs, I realized:

• Nothing is truly free. If something is "free," someone else is paying for it.

• Healthcare and education are services provided by highly trained professionals. Expecting these services to be free is the equivalent of expecting someone to work for nothing.

• Government-funded programs inherently breed inefficiencies, burden taxpayers, and stifle innovation by removing competitive incentives.

• The market is the best mechanism for pricing services efficiently. Supply and demand balance the economy—not ideological handouts.

When I accepted these realities, I no longer felt entitled. I felt empowered.

The Silent Killer of Nations

And worst of all—a disease, an economic parasite that, if left unchecked, will degrade a country into a third-world collapse with no point of return. That parasite is inflation.

If inflation is not controlled, it is the economic equivalent of AIDS to the human body—a slow, relentless erosion of a nation’s life force. It rots the value of currency, crushes the middle class, and widens the chasm between the elite and the poor.

Unchecked inflation does not just erode wealth. It erodes civilization itself.

Manufacturing Truth: Why You Need to Take Ownership of Reality

The pursuit of truth is exhausting. It requires an obsessive dedication to uncovering reality. But once you own truth, you own your future.

I manufacture truth by doing what most people are too lazy to do:

• Obsessively researching.

• Verifying every claim.

• Piecing together an undeniable reality.

I desire twelve zeros—but nothing means more to me than establishing a foundation of factual truth, allowing others to build from that same foundation.

You cannot navigate life on assumptions. You cannot build a future on misinformation. If you do, you will be owned by those who actually understand the systems in place.

The Call to Arms for Truth Seekers

This is your wake-up call. If you are still clinging to ideologies without verifying the empirical foundation they stand on, you are in mental chains.

You can continue operating on emotion, or you can join the ranks of those who seek unfiltered, raw, unshakable truth.

If you are here, if you have read this far, you are already different.

Truth belongs to those willing to dig for it.

Dark Mode. No BS. Just truth.

—Dante Taviantz