During the May Q&A session, one of the questions asked was; “why do you think there are so many people prone to following an ideology seemingly blindly today especially in America, especially among young people, why do people seem to cling to what a doctor, an organization, a news network says religiously” how is that people take what some other people (e.g. doctors) so religiously?
I was thinking about the this when another related thought came to my mind
Our society has developed to a level of extreme complexity so that almost nobody has enough time, energy and resources to attain competence in multiple areas of study. This has necessitated interdependency among individuals. You’re probably not going to be an engineer and also a practicing doctor simultaneously, this means that you have to put your life in the hands of someone else both directly and indirectly. Of course, this requires a certain amount of trust in society’s process of producing specialized individuals, I sense that this trust is gradually being broken as scientists, journalists, and many other professionals are gradually becoming influenced by politicians, rhetoric, political correctness.
The Israel – Palestinian conflict is the best example of this corruption, you can almost predict which side of the conflict a Media establishment will support just by knowing which side of the American political divide they lean into. This is particularly sad because it means that what is taken as “right and wrong” is not determined by what is actually happening on the ground but what the media houses has decided is favorable to the political side.