It was never directly the media for me, but I guess I never really went through an "a ha!" redpill moment. It's just for a decade now I've noticed more and more arguments that just don't stand up to logical scrutiny at all. It's become totally normal to make connections between two unrelated things and use one as evidence of the other.
For example, if I question the efficacy of masks, and I'm presented in response with a guy on his death bed saying "I wish I'd worn a mask!" What proof does this guys statement give me that masks work. He's making assumption that they do and he wouldn't be there because of it, but that's just it--assumption!
That's not even the best example and it's gone back way before Covid. I quit gaming discussion on Reddit in late 2019 for this same phenomenon where totally unrelated assumptions and opinions would be decided were objective fact and linked to something totally unrelated. Not as a discussion point, but as clear and final proof that the "facts" were on their side.
It was never directly the media for me, but I guess I never really went through an "a ha!" redpill moment. It's just for a decade now I've noticed more and more arguments that just don't stand up to logical scrutiny at all. It's become totally normal to make connections between two unrelated things and use one as evidence of the other.
For example, if I question the efficacy of masks, and I'm presented in response with a guy on his death bed saying "I wish I'd worn a mask!" What proof does this guys statement give me that masks work. He's making assumption that they do and he wouldn't be there because of it, but that's just it--assumption!
That's not even the best example and it's gone back way before Covid. I quit gaming discussion on Reddit in late 2019 for this same phenomenon where totally unrelated assumptions and opinions would be decided were objective fact and linked to something totally unrelated. Not as a discussion point, but as clear and final proof that the "facts" were on their side.