@firmware_pimp people will always be full of shit, especially in these estrogenic times where the solipsistic and outrageous are given the same credence as the well researched, often more.

The problem is not that people are full of it. They always have been, there has always been intellectual laziness that creeps in after reading some long winded hogwash or needlessly complicated fluff that was made to impress corrupt educators looking to simply drudge through another day at their government appointed positions which they cannot be fired from.

The point of enlightenment is to grasp a mere kernel of truth that may be used as a conduit for action given appropriate circumstances, get enough of these kernels together and you have a world view get too many and you have a navel gazing philosophy that will ultimately paralyze. The closer we are to ground truth the more tedious and passionless the endeavors become. High level mathematics, science, engineering and even technology retain this unforgiving allure because truth is what lasts, its more immortal than our memetics and more inescapable than our own deaths.

Truth is so elusive that should a mere truck driver utter it, his station would momentarily fade and he would be exalted amongst the unwise masses for he hath spoken of the Alpha and Omega that rule all existence.

In short, even politicians we don't like can be right about things, its best not to blind ourselves to validity in favor of character, let alone the inherent vulnerabilities this exposes for exploit eg: Beyonce says red is the best color, therefore it must be so.