“The mind was primarily concerned, not with measures and locations, but with being and meaning.” — A. Huxley, The Doors of Perception

With all of this in our mind, let’s return now to the world of human beliefs.

Is Google primarily a tool for telling you that the world is more or less as you believe it is? How often do you take a position on an issue just by looking around and discerning what the “right” opinion to have is, then selectively learning the facts that justify that belief? Don’t feel too bad, this is probably most of what politics is.