David Hegg | Why Do You Believe That? |
By David Hegg
Someone came up with the haunting truth that what actually died during COVID was trust. We became a nation of skeptics. Many began to doubt what we’d been told about the origin of the virus, the effectiveness of masks, the safety of vaccines, and especially the reliability of those feeding us everything from the daily news to the spate of governmental mandates and restrictions. And yet, sadly, in the years since COVID, we’ve come to experience an even more serious malady.
Living as a skeptic is quite challenging. Something within us cries out for clarity. We intuitively need a foundation that assures us we know what is true, real and happening in our world. We crave certainty, yet this craving can drive us away from critical assessment, even as we are bombarded with more new information in a day than our founding fathers contemplated in their lifetimes.
Here’s my assessment. Please bear in mind this is an opinion column, not a deeply researched, academically supported, peer-reviewed argument. We are increasingly becoming people who unquestioningly believe what we like, what we want to be true. The rapidly growing........