A certain amount of skepticism is healthy, and can help protect you from being "manipulated, bamboozled and seduced" in various ways. But when you make mistrust

A certain amount of skepticism is healthy, and can help protect you from being "manipulated, bamboozled and seduced" in various ways. But when you make mistrust of authority your default position you lose out o the advantages of learning from the accumulated experience, expertise and wisdom of other humans.