You make a good point: He’s discussing how pleasant it is to have fact-based facts. All the other facts are politicized, and require reverse-minding, and it’s t

You make a good point: He’s discussing how pleasant it is to have fact-based facts. All the other facts are politicized, and require reverse-minding, and it’s tiring. But the cognitive dissonance is entirely created by having people denying a fact. Some people say “Let’s take revenge on X because of ideology Y”, a person P says “I’m going to take revenge on X”, P commits planned murder, someone says “He did it because X” and the AFP (or AP) issues a fact-check saying it is not true (generally because the link between X, Y and P is not established, and sometimes using other arguments like statistical insignificance or because he’s himself a victim of Y, therefore Y made him do it involuntarily). Other examples such as “Women are the primary victims of wars because men die a lot.” It takes a mental toll to accept both the idea that men are primary victims and not primary victims. Our world is full of this. These sorts of shenanigans create side-effect that annoy you such as Facebook, Reddit and 4chan. But you all agree around the same problem: The politicization of facts makes that they get twisted into their opposite, and cognitive dissonance is very tiring.