Great points. How do we really know what we think we really know? A LOT of what we assume we just assume someone smarter than us figured it out and we accept their word as authoritative rather than saying "Wait, prove that to me. Don't talk down to me. Prove it to me. Or show me how to prove that to myself."

It could be really exhausting to do that for every little thing we learn but honestly it's starting to feel like if we don't learn to start doing that, we'll never get out of this hole we're in (or this plane ;) ).