The only one who derives advantage from your gullibility is the conman, if the shoe fits politicians too, or just anyone you allow to get into your head, for in understanding how you think, they may find a way to your heart, undermine your focus, even the values you rep, leaving you heartbroken, but that’s after realising that you’re perhaps one of the few people left in this world who mean what they say.
I guess that’s
why I admire people who go through the discomfort of thought before passing an
opinion or accepting a narrative, and people with the spine to question
absurdities, even if it means failing to corroborate a prefabricated construal
of the people or sect they seem affiliated to.
It just sucks
that that trait is getting gradually few, and that’s why today, the greatest
enemy of the truth we all seek is our unthinking attachment of credibility to
whatever the day’s trending topic is, especially one initiated by someone we
idolise.
Even
journalists that you’d expect to ascertain the truth are increasingly tending
to act on such impulse, and all it now takes to build a story is a catchy
sound-bite from some page, without regard to it being possibly altered not for
concision, but to mislead. So, usually, it’s either the headline and story
don’t agree, or the story is incorrect and someone is demanding a retraction,
or an apology, or both.
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