ImmutableManty on Nostr: This demonstrates a problem that can often happen: people begin to wake up and ...

This demonstrates a problem that can often happen: people begin to wake up and realize "the government doesn't care about me" and "inflation is theft" and "government schools are about indoctrination and conformity" all of which are true. But then they go to the extreme of saying "anything the government says is a lie, therefore any and every 'conspiracy theory' is true." So they start believing stupid stuff like "the earth is flat" or "we never landed on the moon" and so on.

The goal should never be to swap out one set of unexamined beliefs for another. Instead, we should *think critically* and never accept any theory unquestioned just because it comes from our favorite source.

Inflation is neither "good" nor "necessary", regardless of the fact the government says otherwise. But if the government says the sky is blue, I'm not just going to reflexively say "no it's brown!"