Why Is It So Hard to Trust the Information We've Got?

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D we've touched on it some here, but i want to at least acknowledgejus just try to put yourself in the position of someone who has listened to us a now, for a two hours, and is still unconvinced. We've got a whole segment of our society that is declaring epistemological bankruptcy on some level, and then turning to non standard sources of information for their facts. You know, as i said, i think the the alternative media wilderness is especially culpable for giving energy to this. But the truth is, our institutions have failed to a remarkable degree. They have proven hypocritical and and capturable by by a crazy ideology to a degree that i would not

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