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I don't know about you, but I started to notice that not everything that was printed on paper was truthful when I was around ten or eleven years old.
Ok, but acting like you can't trust any sources of info on anything is pretty destructive also. There are still some fairly reliable sources out there. Dismiss everything and you're left with conspiracy theories.
In the long run everything might be false, even your own memory changes over time and may be affected by external forces.
So, maybe there will be no way to tell the truth except when experiencing it firsthand, and we will once again live like ancient Greeks, pondering about things.
To be fair, I hope that science and critical thinking might help to distinguish what is true or not, but that would only apply to abstract things, as all the concrete things might be fabricated
I don't remember saying all books were good. But it's often possible to find well edited and curated material in print.