Very good post. And I also think the nature of the Internet is working in our favor-in the past, there were largely only two voices speaking: the voice of Government, and the voice of Mainstream Media.
When Walter Cronkite spoke on television, or the New York Times wrote something in their pages, it was regarded as Truth, even when it wasn’t, as was the case of Walter Durante saying there was no persecution or starvation of the Kulaks in Ukraine back in the early Thirties, or Cronkite saying the war was lost after the Tet Offensive.
Now, there are thousands or even millions of people on the Internet crowdsourcing events and news, and communicating in real time to determine, at the very least, the veracity of something.
Back in the day, each small clump of citizens were an isolated island.
So, yes. While it is more complicated today to have to think for yourself, it is far better than letting untrustworthy people think for you, which is what a vast number of people unquestionably did in the not-so-distant past.
As for anger, I am looking towers God for help.
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