RE: It’s not a matter of being smarter; it’s a matter of figuring out which ones are lying.
OK, isn’t there a way of figuring this out?
“OK, isn’t there a way of figuring this out?”
I’m not sure it’s one way. Different ways for different people, perhaps. It seems to be a number of complicated ways that can involve the reading of thousands of books and a lot of life experience.
Or sometimes just coincidences or accidents that elicit epiphanies.
It’s a lot easier than it was 40 years ago when everyone denied that the media were lying. Now you can just ask, “Is that true, or did you hear it on CNN?”