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zoe bee recently posted a really good bit on media literacy, worth a watch if you have the time.
Calling back to my original post, saying that people shouldn't have opinions, it's a bit of a shitpost and highly satirical, but i think it would be generally productive for society if we started pushing for people to disavow opinions more generally. An opinion is more akin to a bet than anything else, it's just a statement that you make based on preconceived reasoning. There are things opinions should exist for, shit like "i like the color blue" is a really good example.
But when you start getting to shit like "i think the jews control the world banking system" i think it's probably good to take a step back and consider the point of an opinion in the first place.
Personally i like wacky opinions, i have a bunch, but they're inconsequential, it's shit like "i like linux and think that windows is bad" there's a point where it's not just an opinion anymore, and we should stop referring to them as such. Having a different worldview is not an opinion, it's a worldview, and that worldview is probably based on pseudofact in a lot of places.
I feel like we've sort of conflated the idea of an opinion with an "idea" which is wrong.