Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe #3)

by Jason Pargin

Margaret gazed upward. “Have you ever wondered what would happen to a society if it became totally impossible to discern fact from fiction?” After only brief consideration, Zoey said, “Actually, I think we’re living in it right now.” “I mean truly unable, to the point where evidence could be falsified so thoroughly that no human sense could detect a forgery, where lies could be created that are identical to the truth, down to the molecule. To the point that all of our forensics and experts would be helpless to determine what is real and what is false. What would people cling to, when searching for truths?” “They would probably do what they do now: they’d believe whatever they wanted to.” “The technology that makes people strong and turns them into weapons like that strange man back there, some say that’s the future. But it seems to me the next frontier, the true power, is in mastering these new, perfect forms of deception. The power to throw a car with your bare hands isn’t godlike. There are animals that can do it. The power to create your own reality, that is the power of a god. But you already know that, right?”