When innocent minds don't have an immune system, they get infected by the first pervasive mind virus that comes along. In practice, most epistemological immune systems are not part of the mature, rational self-defense of the mind, but of the virus that is currently possessing it.
Imagine you did accept it, and you have to make policy. It's probably an almost thankless job if you do it right
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The way out would be education. Ideally sharing of knowledge - exponentially. But can't work as 'push' - and obviously the majority is not willing to 'pull'. In an optimistic scenario a crisis like this could result in more people thinking, questioning, being curious.
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I hear education is a very recent discovery and the idea to use it to produce universal enlightenment is totally new and has never been tried?
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