When I was young I overvalued what other people thought. I did things because society says it's good if you do them. Now years later I regret it. On the flip si

When I was young I overvalued what other people thought. I did things because society says it's good if you do them. Now years later I regret it. On the flip side I undervalued the development of my own thinking. These days I think other people overvalue what others think, what the news says, whether the news has "credibility". The thing is once a publication, news outlet, website gains credibility, it will begin to be manipulated by others to produce dubious information to take advantage of this new credibility. It takes some time for the credibility of the news outlet to catch up and go down. Meanwhile everyone is accepting the dubious news as fact, news that was created for the purpose of manipulating opinions. And I say this of all news, not just "fake news" or whatever. The point of news for me now isn't what the news says, it's what opinion does the news wants to manipulate me into. That's a lot more newsworthy for me.