@popobawa4u wrote:
You seem to think of this as a fundamentally top-down problem, which I think is undemocratic while also addressing only the symptoms of the problem.
People tend to be taught from from the very beginning (in my awful part of the world, at least) that the differences between fact and opinion vary according to one's own self-centered perceived convenience. People are conditioned to use factuality, or whatever else they can, to further social role-playing games. This need not be the case. Overcoming the instinct towards self-centered outlooks and bias takes some discipline, but is hardly as difficult as many make it out to be. Teaching children formal reasoning and encouraging objectivity from a young age IMO does more to address the fundamental problem.
