I sort-of/basically agree with all of these, except the first. 2. Mainstream news is usually honest and reflects one view of reality. Different sources of news reflect different views, each attempting to give an honest account. The lie was always in the pretense that news are ever truly objective. No information is unadultered because no information is uncurated. 3. Institutions are as trustworthy, as the people running the institution. In a society, where the populace is generally corrupt, the institutions eventually will be, too. 4. Thinking via convention is an underrated thought pattern. Most novel thought is either stupid and a bit insane, or just a dumbed-down version of what someone smarter once thought and put to writing or embedded in tradition. Most people aren't well-read or knowledgeable enough to know that, tho, so they reinvent the same cart 100 times, or go off on some harebrained tangent, rather than using prior wisdom as a base from which to add to the pool of knowledge. 5. Comfort is the highest pursuit in life, both physical and psychological. (We can disagree on what defines "comfort", but the ancients might describe it as the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain.) Comfort, for one person, might be escaping Hell and enjoying the warmth of family life and friendship, and then sleeping soundly knowing that they will wake to their loving family or to Heaven. 6. I have never met a person who actually thinks this. At most, some see excessive consumption as a way to communicate some prior successful creation or accomplishment, through flamboyance. 7. Authority figures are legitimate and their positions deserve respect, even if they themselves don't. 8. Conventional career paths are the most valuable in our society, for men. Something common tends to be essential. 9. It's difficult to make predictions. Especially about the future. 10. Risk should be contemplated and avoided, where practical and when possible.