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I'm sorry? What elaborate narrative am I based on? What dubious sources?

If you think my point about how you know something is satire, you are mistaken - I am serious.

The problem is that most people are unable to discern what they know from what think they know (aka belief). Because they saw it on a screen or other people say so this. This is NOT knowing. Watching something on a screen only means that you know you saw something on a screen, not that what you saw was faithfully portrayed! You didn't believe Independence Day was real, but you do believe the news, etc is.

Knowing is not easy, but believing we know is.