Exactly.
I find this interesting in that the same way the Internet has castrated the media with respect to their stranglehold on the news (and like the dinosaurs that looked up to see a blazing meteor streaking towards earth, they still only dimly sense their extinction) the Internet is doing much the same to institutions of “higher learning”.
The left has had a stranglehold on the imparting and framing of history and knowledge for decades. They controlled what kids see in textbooks and what was allowed to pass into their knowledge. They turned into centers of indoctrination.
I liken the effect of the Internet to that of Radio Free Europe in a time when that was the only source of truth to many behind the Iron Curtin, and the state couldn’t stop people from hearing it.
Same with the Internet. It is democratizing.
Of course, the downside (as you alluded to in your post) is...Google. THEY are the arbiters of knowledge now. When you ask a question, they can and do shape and mold the answer to suit their purposes instead of fulfilling any commitment to the truth. Actually it isn’t that...they cannot deliver “the truth”, but they can deliver what they want you to see...their version of “truth”.
The concept of being able to ask questions and get answers is unbelievably powerful, but the problem is that one entity holds so much power to dispense those answers...Google. That scares me.
Hence, your statement on knowing how to ask the question in a way to maximize your chances of finding real truth instead of “their” truth. Very good point you made.
Good post. The internet was the ‘radio free europe’ for America. Not anymore. The radical left are in firm control of our big tech and they are ACTIVELY CENSORING everything they disapprove of. And history has shown us that they won’t stop at censoring.