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[quote=Anonymous]I’m trying to push back at some of the hot takes that my 15 yo son has started throwing at me, and I’m realizing that we have fundamentally different ways of looking at the world and creating an informed opinion. On a controversial topic, for example, I’d read balanced newspapers to get a framework, hunt down primary sources to dig into open questions, and then form an opinion w footnotes. In contrast, he would check out AP news and Wikipedia, maybe spot chrck snopes, and stop there. He’d prefer journalists and preselected video clips over experts or primary media, even if they are easy to find and take the same time to read. I’m guessing this is a generational gap, but I have no idea how to address this. This way of creating ideas in the world just seems so ripe for manipulation... Wondering if anyone has noticed the same. Is it worth walking through primary sources with him if he doesn’t really value that info? I feel like such an old…[/quote]
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