The 5g conspiracy craziness are but the latest example showing that a civilization's technological progress is hard-limited at any given time by the quality of education a median member of the society has received.
@rysiek
>median
I see what you did here!
@rysiek
So how do we educate 51% of the society?
@wolf480pl well. We should educate them well.
The problem is that education needs to work on different levels. There's baseline education provided by schools, and there's education on particular topics. The former is pretty good, the latter has been abandoned completely, at least in UK and Poland. There were no public campaigns in either country on any of the controversial topics for decades. This battle was lost by walkover.
They don't, authority is 100% subjective. If a government has already started prostituting their authority for short-term gains then they've lost their authority already and are screwed by their own will.
In reality this is probably a bit more optimistic: people confronted with all kind of conspiracy bullshit do wait for public authorities statements on controversial topics. If there's none then... it's lost by walkover.
