It may simply be a function of age, although I think not, that there's now seems to be so much information, in the sense that computer science people think of information, that no one can adequately figure out what is factual, roughly speaking, and what's just white noise amplified to the point of being deafening. On the other hand, there's new cross-disciplinary thinking about historical fact, and about our deep history, that would qualify as knowledge no matter how much white noise there is presently. And as someone with some useful research training, I can say with certainty that I can now find factual, unbiased information on any subject I'm interested in trying to understand correctly in minutes, about things that used to take hours or days in a library. In other words, I'm stumped.
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You have that foundation already that many younger people don't have. Think about a Millennial in University now, who grew into this technology and way of "researching", it must be so different for them when they search for information and wonder what's right or wrong. In other words, I guess we're all stumped!