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It was pretty amazing to witness the final erosion of public trust that was the covid/Trump era. From hereon out we have two factions of humanity - those who w
by thinking4real 4y ago
It was pretty amazing to witness the final erosion of public trust that was the covid/Trump era.
From hereon out we have two factions of humanity - those who will believe anything said by authority and those who know knowledge can only be ascertained through deduction and reason.
I’d never have thought that once information became ubiquitous that we would lose any ability to rely on it, but the worlds more complicated than I assumed.
- chadcmulligan 4y agoMy Dad used to say "Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.", which is from Poe "Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see." [1]. Nothing much has changed. [1] https://poemuseum.org/did-poe-really-say-that/ https://poemuseum.org/did-poe-really-say-that/