>>212598129Being confused is better than blindly choosing one of many competing narratives to take at face value, then arguing with people who picked a different one. You simply can't know the truth unless you've observed the relevant material reality, yet you can never see the things on the news for yourself. When it comes to current and historical events, you're stuck between trusting people with vested interests to tell you what's true, or simply not believing anything at all unless you've seen it yourself.
There are infinite degrees in between that depend on how trusting you are. Most people trust peer review and audit processes - surely something that is reviewed by many people in different organizations has a higher chance of actually being true. Or you might think they're all lying, but there is an objectively lower chance of that. Meanwhile, something only the government or only one specific interest group says has no guarantee of being true. You just have to decide how much trust and faith you can put it to believe something is true.
Of course the biggest pitfall is believing bullshit just because you want it to be true. Especially if you double down when it's revealed to be bullshit just because you don't want to accept that you fell for bullshit.