Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

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First of all, there is no such thing as the truth. The truth is a subjective entity. It depends on your perspective and personal experience. The first and most important thing is to understand and accept the fact that the truth is actually a perception and not an objective fact.

It’s one of those questions where you can never go wrong answering “yes” or “no”; the only real choice you have as a person is how you want to perceive it. The answer to this question relates directly to the previous one: anti-interesting, as in "anti-truth" is a good description of the subjectivity of truth. The reason why people find "truth" so boring, anti-interesting, or otherwise uninteresting, is because they have a hard time understanding that there really isn't any such thing as "the truth."

Source: Infinite Jest

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