Information also wants to be expensive

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Imagine if it wasn’t clear to people that the Nazis invaded Poland, there is a vaccine for polio, apartheid existed in South Africa or two plus two is four. Imagine dark forces convincing half the population that facts are “fake news.”

What ramparts keep idiocracy at bay? Is it education? Education affects mostly children. Politics? P…