I suppose it's no secret that most people in this community have little use or time for mainstream media and the attendant circus-like narrative.
I'm pretty much the same in that I struggle to believe much of what I see and sometimes I wonder how some of the stuff "reported" even gets included in anything that could be described as actual news or reporting.
I almost admire the way they can take two sentences from the same story, put them in different contexts, pretend they have nothing in common and somehow persuade a large chunk of the population that they are looking at facts.
I was almost going to say that it alarms me how people don't seem to question what they see, but that would be misleading. It's how they question I usually find alarming.
One of the good pieces of advice I got a long time ago was to "follow the money." Usually that's where you can find the vested interests behind a lot of sketchy behavior. But few people seem to do that, choosing instead to hone in on highly unlikely conspiracy theories that get them dismissed as nutjobs rather than poking at the actual "sleeping bear."
Sometimes I find myself wondering whether some of these "conspiracy theories" are actually counter smokescreens designed to deliberately further obfuscate the issue at hand as a kind of misdirection of people's attention.
Misdirection is a pretty common way of transferring accountability for something onto an often irrelevant scapegoat. But why would we rather put our faith in the highly unlikely than the obvious?
Seems to be an almost inevitable part of the human condition. We'd rather put our faith in a "miracle pill" to lose weight than a proven approach of a better diet and more exercise.
Maybe it ties into people's fascination with being "special." Normalcy has no real value anymore... or at least that's the perception, and who wants to be ordinary and boring?
I'm no expert, mind you. And perhaps I'm even a bad example because my motivations tend to be somewhat non-standard.
Regardless... I do find it worrisome that we can't trust any sources of information... mostly because we have to waste so damn much time verifying everything by hand!
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