The past few years have brought home to me the powerful and pernicious tendency of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe and see what it wants to see. I've been musing recently of the apparently inverse relationship between the mountain of information available on the internet on one hand and the decline of objective and intelligent grasp of reality on the other. I’m often reminded of research indicating how internet posts that express simplistic moral outrage are much more likely than sober and nuanced posts to be liked, shared, and go viral. I realize with a deep internal sigh that this is due to immutable traits in human nature and will take immense effort at both the individual and collective levels to effect positive change.