I’m not sure I agree with your last statement. You have to work really hard to know what’s actually going on. When everywhere you look, this narrative you’ve been taught to believe is being spoon-fed to you, you have to go far out of your way to see the truth. Shit, even here, many people will believe something the news says that’s not verified/valid/accurate/etc. For example, people began questioning Pence when a news outlet (forget which one) said Pence was distancing himself from Trump after all the deboooonked voter fraud claims. A lot of people ran with that and never bothered to look into it further (if they did, they’d see that Pence spoke out against those claims, saying he wakes up every day supporting President Trump. Our whole lives, we have been conditioned to trust whatever the media tells us. You don’t have to work really hard to be ignorant, but it is a constant up-hill battle searching for truth.
The whole reason i started to support Trump was because of the media saying he’s racist against Mexicans. I thought “damn, he must have said something really bad!” so i looked into it. I read the full transcript from that speech, realized i had just been lied to, and i found myself agreeing with every single thing Trump said and was a supporter ever since. Even then, I never fully realized how corrupt the media was until I started going on r/t_d back in the ass end of 2015 and having a revelation about these institutions we’re supposed to trust actually being dishonest to promote their agenda was a hard, hard pill to swallow.
Tl;dr it takes far more effort and resilience to fight the constant stream of ignorance. It’s easy and comfortable to remain ignorant and believe everything you see and it takes zero effort to do so.
I’m not sure I agree with your last statement. You have to work really hard to know what’s actually going on. When everywhere you look, this narrative you’ve been taught to believe is being spoon-fed to you, you have to go far out of your way to see the truth. Shit, even here, many people will believe something the news says that’s not verified/valid/accurate/etc. For example, people began questioning Pence when a news outlet (forget which one) said Pence was distancing himself from Trump after all the deboooonked voter fraud claims. A lot of people ran with that and never bothered to look into it further (if they did, they’d see that Pence spoke out against those claims, saying he wakes up every day supporting President Trump. Our whole lives, we have been conditioned to trust whatever the media tells us. You don’t have to work really hard to be ignorant, but it is a constant up-hill battle searching for truth.
The whole reason i started to support Trump was because of the media saying he’s racist against Mexicans. I thought “damn, he must have said something really bad!” so i looked into it. I read the full transcript from that speech, realized i had just been lied to, and i found myself agreeing with every single thing Trump said and was a supporter ever since. Even then, I never fully realized how corrupt the media was until I started going on r/t_d back in the ass end of 2015 and having a revelation about these institutions we’re supposed to trust actually being dishonest to promote their agenda was a hard, hard pill to swallow.
Tl;dr it takes far more effort and resilience to fight the constant stream of ignorance. It’s easy and comfortable to remain ignorant and believe everything you see and it takes zero effort to do so.