Apparently, you haven't been on that Internet thingie in the last five years or so... :-)
But I do agree with your point. What's interesting is the increasing number of people who act like there's some clearly objective and knowable truth about a much a larger percentage of topics than there actually is. Outside of mathematics, logic, physics and other hard sciences, the range of topics on which informed, reasonable people can disagree, at least on certain significant aspects, is vast.
That's why even the concept of having some army of "Fact Checkers" always struck me as bizarre and doomed at best, and at worst, a transparent attempt to censor and control public discourse. That more people didn't see even the idea of it as being obviously brittle is concerning.
Apparently, you haven't been on that Internet thingie in the last five years or so... :-)
But I do agree with your point. What's interesting is the increasing number of people who act like there's some clearly objective and knowable truth about a much a larger percentage of topics than there actually is. Outside of mathematics, logic, physics and other hard sciences, the range of topics on which informed, reasonable people can disagree, at least on certain significant aspects, is vast.
That's why even the concept of having some army of "Fact Checkers" always struck me as bizarre and doomed at best, and at worst, a transparent attempt to censor and control public discourse. That more people didn't see even the idea of it as being obviously brittle is concerning.