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We are all born innocent, naïve and gullible. In order to survive and prosper in life we need to learn how to be able to make wise decisions independently. We learn from parents and family, mentors and teachers, instructors, professors and other authority figures. We must learn how to learn and apply what we learn properly. When we make mistakes, it is usually because we either made decisions based upon erroneous information or we deliberately used our emotions to decide what we think would make us happy in spite of the obvious risk of detrimental consequences. People are going to believe whatever they want to believe in spite of the truth, facts or reality! You don’t know how much you don’t know, think about that for a moment. We all make decisions based on what we know, or more precisely, what we think we know. Those decisions can be inconsequential or they can be life changing for you, your family and/or everybody else. Isn’t it important to make those decisions based upon empirical truth, facts and reality? But how do you determine what is truth and what is not? Do you seek information from multiple diverse independent credible sources? Are you sure? What makes actual sense and what is deception based upon eliciting a directed emotion response? Who and what do you trust to tell you the truth? Why? Do you trust them because you are told that you are supposed to trust authority? Always question authority, then verify their answers before you make any decision. Do you trust them because they have a proven track record of always being honest and trustworthy? How do you know when you are being played, deceived, fooled, conned, bamboozled, lied to, hoodwinked, misled, tricked, duped or taken in? Do you actually do any research on the important questions you need to answer before you make your important decisions? How do you do that research properly, correctly, completely and efficiently? Learn how to do proper research to find the real truth, factual and complete information. How do you determine when somewhen is trying to deceive you? How do you know if someone you trust is telling you something false that they firmly believe is true? The internet has given us the opportunity to extract information instantly from around the world to the point of information overload, it can be mind boggling and totally confusing because so much of the information is erroneous, contradictory and conflicting. It is good to get a consensus of many opinions however, never depend upon any one opinion to make a decision. Remember opinions are like assholes, everybody has them, they are necessary, sometimes smelly and are routinely full of shit! So, between of internet overload, educational indoctrination and unreliable biased News sources, it requires a lot more effort to find that all elusive truth! Compare and keep track of how accurate your information sources are over time and weed out the poor ones. Constantly keep developing new credible information sources, dig deep into the background of both good and bad sources to find the secrets not generally known to the public. Anti-establishment sources are often more credible than the so-called authoritative establishment. Wisdom comes from experience and cynicism comes from wisdom.