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RE: The new battlefield... FAKE NEWS... it's gonna be a bloody one
But what if someone spends years of their life, digging really, really deeply only to come to the conclusions it's BS? If they then choose to not engage further on that topic, they are criticized for not having an open mind. That's kind of silly to me. At some point we do have to move on and not everyone has years and years to really dig deeply into something only to find there's not much there.
I fear there may be no balance. It might be tribalism all the way.
Both of you could be right. There definitely does seem to be quite a bit of tribalism.
How often is something TOTALLY B.S.? I tend to see more shades of gray than black and white. It can be that MOST of what you studied was B.S.... yet there could have been parts that is true. I find that absolutes usually are not true. There of course are exceptions.
So the journey to learn something can be important and can offer perceptions at truth you might not have seen from another angle. They can likewise conceal truth.
I tend to not close my mind to new information. The key though is whether it is NEW information or not.
Hearing things I dislike or disagree with and then going NAH NAH NAH could make me miss the only new information that was there.
Kind of like information prospecting... gotta throw out the junk rock to find the good ore. Yet if all I do is look and see only the junk rock, how can I ever find the good ore?