We live in a very interesting time where publishing platforms have been democratized and are

largely free.

So anyone with a microphone, like me, anyone with a camera, like your phone, can suddenly

start to broadcast to a pretty sizable audience, even if your audience is small.

That's often hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands of people for some random

channel on social media.

And what that means is that uninformed opinions and comedy and suggestions and conspiracy

theories that normally would never see the light of day, they get propagated and proliferated

and spread all over the place to the point where it gets really confusing to figure out

what's going on.

To make matters worse, people who are experts and people who do have power, whether that's

political or financial power, often know full well the power of this publishing, this democratization

of publishing, and they leverage it to their advantage, whether that's to boost a stock

price, whether that's to win an election, whether that's to get social media cloud.

Long story short, it's really hard to figure out what's going on.

It's really difficult to think for yourself.

This do your own research concept is really art.

I don't know how to research do you?

The idea of developing your own opinion about something that you have no education in and

don't necessarily even know how to begin getting educated in really makes it challenging.

People say we live in the information age.

I often think that we live in the communication and discernment age.

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