Can you even trust "yourself" as a source of critical information.....???
"WHAT" information source do you trust, Including yourself......??? Maybe YES or Maybe NO.
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Dang good question
I choose to believe my eyes and my experiences, usually its other people's claims that get me into trouble. First hand knowledge is the safest knowledge imo.
People get into trouble when they think to much and ignore their inherent common sense. Or worse yet put complete trust in sources known to be either unproven or actively misinforming/disinforming them. I have had far greater success just listening to my gut and following my instincts.
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No source of information is either 100% wrong or 100% right......even blatant misinformation sources will put as much correct information into their feed as they can, to make the deliberate misinformation more credible.
I have traveled to many news worthy places and seen the reality on the ground and the corresponding news feeds for that place, from various types of news media.
All that experience has allowed me to develop analytical filters that help me separate real facts.....from deliberate misinformation and inadvertent factual errors.
That analysis wont be 100% accurate either.....but is better than just accepting all sources or worse still, just the sources that tell you what you want to hear.
If I were to summarize what that usually means, it would be that way too many people assign to events, some deep deliberate conspiracy, when just simple old incompetence and dysfunctionality are really/mostly to blame.
I have traveled to many news worthy places and seen the reality on the ground and the corresponding news feeds for that place, from various types of news media.
All that experience has allowed me to develop analytical filters that help me separate real facts.....from deliberate misinformation and inadvertent factual errors.
That analysis wont be 100% accurate either.....but is better than just accepting all sources or worse still, just the sources that tell you what you want to hear.
If I were to summarize what that usually means, it would be that way too many people assign to events, some deep deliberate conspiracy, when just simple old incompetence and dysfunctionality are really/mostly to blame.
