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That is not true about everyone though. Everyone does it sometimes in some places, but it’s important to recognise that some groups of people have been able to build self-critical institutions and regularly consume information that challenges their own views.

Left institutions are somewhat famous for self-criticism (“the left eats its own”). Left media, such as The Ezra Klein Show, regularly has right wing people on the show and it has a wonk liberal host.

I sought out animal rights philosophy when I ate lots of meat (and I’ve now stopped). I’ve read Hayek, Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative (Bozell actually wrote it), and Peter Thiel, and I’m on the left.

It is not true that everyone is the same in their information seeking activities, nor true that all institutions act as captured servants of some validation-seeking audience.