News and social media are legitmized gossip that create information overload / Tragedy of the Commons / false equivalency.

This leads to InfoWars, Cambridge Analytica, foreign state actors and anyone with deceptive goals and funding able to manipulate millions to billions of people economically. Heck, there’s an Instagram likes vending machine in Moscow.

Parents and teachers need to teach children and students often using trickery and not thinking for them in order to teach them lessons to not be so gullible. Wrapping them in bubble-wrap, helicopter parenting, dumbed-down education, extended adolescence and sending them to private schools/homeschool is counter-productive. A healthy citizenry needs initiative, leadership, nuance, moral courage, critical thinking and reliable knowledge; otherwise idiocracy.

Like Andy Grove’s book title: ”Only the paranoid survive”