>>85907232Actually, most of your information is filtered through several other people first and then reaches your senses. This is not a fast process either, so most of that information is forgotten or discarded long before you get anything. The act of communicating information is also very limited by a wide variety of factors and people can't really be bothered, so almost all of THAT is lost by never being spoken, and for many people, most is filtered again by a lack of listening. Throw in the biases and malicious lies and deception and you can't even trust what you do hear.
People have very few channels in their life for information to even enter, owing to a lack of relationships and a dependence on opt-in learning where you have to already know about something to find more out. Almost everything requires independent exploration to rediscover information that's already been discovered a million times, but you have no way to locate it despite being surrounded by it at all times. The bare minimum of having parents and extended family to learn from is now considered a luxury, and even if you have it, chances are they know no more than you do.
And this is just for observable facts and practical knowledge; if you take into account more abstract or subjective ideas, more than half of people are automatically ruled out as vectors because they can't understand it. Good luck ever arriving at more advanced topics on your own, assuming a source for it even still exists. This stuff lives on in a tiny minority of people and only for as long as they're still alive, then it's gone. /pcg/, consider writing down your thoughts before they completely disappear.
