I know that you have what it takes to overcome this.

Before I noticed, this cross I had been bearing became a sapling bearing new life.

If the world is truly connected, the power of despots to deceive their slaves would vanish immediately. The difference between truth and fiction is like night and day, it's immediately obvious to anyone. Our world is not a battle between truth and deception, but rather between many different deceptions, dividing up truth between them and sullying it with lies of their own to make it wholly unpalatable to those who believe any other shards of the truth (each stained the same way).