Every war has two sets of heroes. Every religion has one true god. Every country has a flag worth dying for. None of that was your idea. Fault Lines explores the oldest trick in human history — how kings, priests, newspapers, governments, algorithms, and AI have always shaped what you believe, who you fear, and why you fight. From the Troubles in Northern Ireland to Nazi Germany, the Cold War, and the Ukraine war, this episode traces the machinery of manufactured reality across all of human civilisation. The tools change. The mechanic never does. A Fault Lines deep dive into propaganda, narrative control, identity, and the one question that cracks the spell.

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