I regret to tell you that there is no one infallible source of information; at least not yet.
But never in human history has so much information been available to so many at so little cost, save of time, and most spend so many hours a day on their phones that it can hardly be said that they have no time for self-education or the consideration of different points of view and the evidences for and against them.
Just look at the time some people must spend on this and other forums nattering away. True, some are paid and unpaid shills whose business it is to try and distract and divert online discussion. Those types are found in every venue of any size.
As you may not have heard many of the political and media marionettes in most of the Western World are huffing and puffing about the need to prevent "disinformation" and prosecute those who have the temerity to disagree with the party line.
Why they should care is a mystery I'm sure: false information invariably reveals itself and inevitably discredits those who propound it. Those who are propounding demonstrable truths have nothing to fear from "disinformation", in fact it convicts itself and by doing so makes the truth more obvious.
The best way to deal with it is simply to examine it in detail and demonstrate why it is false using the evidences for and against.
So you're not concerned about the level of media concentration in the West? You don't think it's harmful to democracy?
You are a funny sort of leftist aren't you? But actually no, it's the so-called left who are now more the war-drum-bangers and interventionists. Funny they never got all excited about intervening in places like Rwanda, Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Congo, Chad or other failed states where vast numbers of lives could have been and still could be saved by a humane intervention designed to solve the actual problems of those countries. But then I suppose doing so might reduce the flow of migrants to the West.
Weren't you just making excuses for Uncle Sam's many foreign adventures since WWII the other day?
Say, are we still looking for those WMDs under the bodies of a million and half Iraqis?
How about the Afghan adventure; what was that all about? Why was all that equipment and almost everyone who allied themselves with us left behind? Nay better: a list of their names and addresses etc. was left behind as well.
Didn't peak your curiosity at all? Oh, I do hope you don't think I'm being "conspiratorial"
Heaven's no. All that piffle about shooting down an American jetliner and blaming it on the Cubans, or those silly stories about Oswald not being a lone gunman, and then there was that Watergate Hotel business.
Oh yes, I do see your point about those conspiracy theories; very tiresome aren't they?
Never mind, the Ministry of Truth be will upon us soon enough, and for a little while its eager advocates will take smug pleasure in the silencing of the "others". Of course the organs of State Security will be along soon after, and once they've dealt with all the enemies of the people, they will fade quietly away like the state and the socialist millennium will have arrived at last.
And they all pretended to live happily ever after, the end.
So Red Robin, if you live long enough to see those happy days, keep a small bag packed by your door: some underwear, tooth brush, razor, soap dental floss, socks, maybe a shirt or two, a small towel etc. The sorts of things you might need if called away unexpectedly very early some morning. You see Robin, we need to keep breaking eggs for our omellete and after we've used up all the white and brown ones we'll have no choice but to look farther afield and talkative people with too many ideas who were around in the old days, they're a liability we just can't afford...I am sorry. You'll make a full confession for the good of the cause I'm sure?
