Stop seeking permission. Apply first principles and verify on-chain. Truth is verifiable data. The state profits from your confusion. "Know thyself" means trusting your own reason over their noise.

To answer the first question I have a checklist I usually follow. It's not exhaustive neither is it the only way to filter between fact or psyop but it's proven useful over the yearsm. It's probably a psyop if: 1. The gvt, MSM, and the masses preach something as settled or common sense, the opposite is usually true 2. Open debate or discussion around the subject is forbidden or censored or can get you cancelled for disagreeing/dissenting 3. A lot of money is used to prop up the narrative and it can't stand on its own merits 4. It doesn't make sense when you reason from first principles 5. Requires you implicitly trust the authorities Mental resiliency is something you practice everyday when you consistently think, speak and act in accordance with what's true, despite the temptation to do the opposite.