That would probably be a fairly accurate representation of my world view when I was 14, if I had ever actually bothered to think about it that deeply. Really I was just internalizing what the TV and my teachers told me as though they were perfectly trustworthy authority figures. "If I'm simply repeating what someone who is correct says, then that must obviously make me correct" is the way it's conceptualized as the conscious level.

Thank god I eventually grew out of it.

That would probably be a fairly accurate representation of my world view when I was 14, if I had ever actually bothered to think about it that deeply. Really I was just internalizing what the news and my teachers told me as though they were perfectly trustworthy authority figures. "If I'm simply repeating what someone who is correct says, then that must obviously make me correct" is the way it's conceptualized as the conscious level.

Thank god I eventually grew out of it.