Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.” We live in a strange hybrid of Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World. We have surveillance, speech policing, history revision, hate demonstrations. At the same time, we have abundance of goods, we are free of personal anxiety, and have total instant access to information delivering anything we want.Social media directs you toward material that will trigger a response. The dopamine from seeing what you believe, or getting approval for your statements, is a little dopamine hit. If you respond with indignation, it gives you a survival response dopamine hit. Dopamine addiction allows the propaganda machine to opiate the lazy toward things that have no basis in reality, logic, or science.The Dunning-Kruger effect used to be a quaint little cognitive bias. Now it runs entire institutions and raises the next generation. It wraps luxurious comfort around the psyche and then armors it with righteous indignation so thick that facts bounce off like rubber bullets. This is the operating system of modern progressivism. People speak in strong declarative sentences about complicated subjects they have never seriously examined, then treat any correction as a personal attack.