Well, you are a VERY informed person. Like me, you have made "being informed" your hobby and passion. We just "have to know".

We have been willing to pay the cost in time but most people don't. There are a LOT of consequences of that reality.

As an anthropologist I could write a doctoral thesis on the implications of that reality. It defines how information moves through a society and how our politics works.

I've been thinking about it a lot. It lies at the heart of so many things.