From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 6

We’re not evaluative:

We lack both the approach and the alertness of detecting bias in the information. And bias is detectable in what, when, how, etc.: what parts of the information are provided or withheld, why it is given now, how it is presented, etc. Instead, we’re prone to judge the book by its cover: the way they present us something determines the merit of our evaluation. We’d reject the value of pi from a tramp and treasure the same value from an anchor, instead of just putting the datum itself to the test, in both cases in the same way.
But there’s no limit to our inanity, and we even get to the incredible point of condoning a criminal trick instead of jumping at the throat of whoever dares to commit it: when someone is fraudulently passing off as ascertained what ascertained is not at all in the first place we don’t even realize it. Someone presents us point A as an implicit premise of point B, and we take point A for granted without even realizing it is point A that still has to be demonstrated true in the first place.
As a result, the conquerors of mainstream media and political and public agendas present intentionally scarce, and selected, and biased, and cleverly packaged information; and we enable them to run a 2nd level censorship: we can have whatever opinion, but we are not aware someone is deciding what we can have an opinion about, and what we’ll be kept in the dark about. Bias in package is a science in itself, and consequently it is a dire sin to weigh up the package and be persuaded of having weighed up the contents.

We’re impatient:

We apparently favour swiftness over exactness, which may be subject to discussion, as both have advantages and there are cases where either one is preferable. But the truth is quite different: we just can't stay there without reacting long enough to be able to listen, to observe, to think, to discern, to realize, to understand; we just can’t face circumstances, things, people, ideas, with the needed poise without feeling some kind of increasing pressure commanding us to blow up as a means to escape it.

From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus