we need to confront the reality that when bombarded with too many options, our default can be to rely on information that places few demands upon thinking. More and more of us would then think we know something based on information whose source was chosen because it conforms to how and what we thought before. Thus, though we are seemingly well armed, there begins to be less and less motivation to think more deeply, much less try on views that differ from one’s own. We think we know enough, that misleading mental state that lulls us into a form of passive cognitive complacency that precludes
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