> What's troublesome for the public is that the culture does not instill a healthy level of individualism when it comes to interpreting information; we are enco

> What's troublesome for the public is that the culture does not instill a healthy level of individualism when it comes to interpreting information; we are encouraged to trust experts To be fair, the have been a lot of people with a lot of claims about experts being wrong & awful & lying, and a very large number of these people seem pretty batshit crazy. The not-trusters seem most likely to fall for your wonderfully stated second idea, which I love, > People don't believe they have time to understand things on their own, nor do they believe they have the capacity to do so. The most vocal mainstream resistance seems extremely quick to accept & deeply believe alternate portrayals, ones that happen to fit the constructed narratives they want to believe. I think the mainstream actually does a much better job of having skeptical takes, but wow, our tolerance for the dreck demagoguery trash that people adopt has worn real thin.