This is so right!

As a librarian, I’m absolutely appalled at the complete inability of a lot of so many people to not only not do any research, but are too lazy to bother to try, just accepting whatever they’re told at face value without the desire, or ability, to corroborate what they were told! I love to learn. I like the part where you say you were educated to the point where you can critically think. I didn’t used to know that was a thing, but over the years I’ve met “educated” people who were as incurious as fence posts! (See how hard I’m trying not to call them “dumb”!)

As a librarian we get asked lots of questions, and my job was never to let someone walk away from an interaction without some form of information. If I didn’t know anything about the processes of law, at least I did know the name of someone who had studied the law for years, or how to find out, or how to find and parse credible sources of information. We were taught keep an open mind, so that when new information was presented, we could incorporate it into our thinking. Frankly, I’m very baffled at people who don’t know how to do any of that. But there they are yelling (they always need to yell) nonsense in front of tv cameras! I simply cannot engage with such levels of illogic.