This is a very good short term option, that I hope others have been working on. My personal actions have been to encourage my family member to stop using social media, point them to top quality content producers like Joe Rogan & redlettermedia. And most importantly, I help them to calm down, the information available is exhausting, but the world around us isn't changing that fast, I remind them to use that as a reference, talk to people I person, get involved in local politics, take a nature walk, life is short.
Is Joe Rogan truly the highest quality content producer? I've seen/heard some of his content, it's quite diffuse wrt information density. Do I really want to listen to 2.5 hour podcast to get what I can in 30 minutes from other podcasters? I also heard him asking Neil deGrasse Tyson about whether the moon landing was faked with a lot of skepticism in his voice...
I think hes a quality content source at the very least. You can usually find an abridged or best of for the most interesting podcasts. And you can reliably fall down to a complete unedited interview to get more balanced observation 9f his or guests opinions. He sticks out to me as one of my most interesting and he shares similar levels of openness and drive for the truth compared to the other independent producers I am aware of it frequent. There are other quality producers that do better jobs at interviewing different niches.
The truth is always changing, entertaining controversial hypotheses is reinforcing or exposing the truth. As my awareness, research, observational and social skills have expanded, so too has my worldview. If it we represent a worldview as a polygon, where each time you accept a new story into your worldview you add that point as a new vertex to your shape. What happens as you validate and accept more points outside your ahapn? Your total perimeter likely increases is length, ever increasing the total number of potentially mysterious stories available to you. The larger your worldview, the larger set of "what ifs" become available to you, "what ifs" produce larger impacts requiring larger and larger changes to your worldview. If you dont entertain the what ifs and discuss potentially impactful what ipfs, the more cataclysmic the potential change you'll have to make.
He likely asked In jest, but I feel it was probably healthily for Niel to retell the facts for himself as it was for Joe to entertain the unlikely idea, but incredibly impactful the story is if it's not the whole truth.
