"We all have biases": does this mean everyone is unable to discern t***h? I have written a few times on "confirmation bias," which is a proven characteristic of the brain...for a number of people. Not all!

As a species we have physical as well as psychological needs. The physical are basic to existence, the psychological basic to having a life. Much of who we are today is how both these imperative needs were met throughout our life. And any further into this gets a nearly useless complexity of theories and psychological schools. So let's go by experience from this point.

Are there people smarter and dumber than you? Are there people more or less aware than you? Are there people more or less insightful than you concerning anything. Do you have "blind spots," areas that may relate to certain predispositions on certain issues to react in certain ways or feel in certain ways, without directly knowing why or misreading the circumstances? I will not labor the point.

Conclusion: we all need to be more open and searching, relying on friends and maybe more often on the opposition to put rabbit ears on our vision for better perception. Some will get it perfectly and others perfectly wrong: but this spectrum exists. Look deeply, not just closely, and listen well. This, however, does not include me, for I rightly know everything. Amen?

I usually put my sources when arguing for or against something, yet not too long ago an opinion piece by someone here on the Right strongly suggested this was somehow a defect. Fascinating. It also seems that using any fact checking sites for those on the Right is verboten and de facto proof one has drunk the "kool-aid." Just rely on those mass emails and Fox News, discrediting everything else no matter how true or factual and or easily verified. Or debunked, yet many do not even do that, just dismissing anything that conflicts with their confirmation bias.