Curated or Free-flow?

One side-conversation that has been going on in my life is the dynamic between "curated content" and "free-flow content".

I strongly lean toward "free-flow" and believe that each individual is responsible for sorting wheat-from-chaff. Further, I believe that a solid grounding in a religious tradition simplifies that sorting. We are not all gifted with the same mental processing capability and tradition is the original "crowd-sourcing". Even those of us who are proud of our "smart" are well advised to examine how our choices square with our religious self.

The "curated content" folks cough up a hair-ball at the potential chaos of the free-flow model. Chaos makes them uncomfortable.

At the risk of seeming to be calloused, chaos and risk are eternal. Even though we might crave some benevolent, omniscient being/organization to serve as curator, none exists. Or, even if it existed for an instant in time, the power of such a position would inevitably corrupt it.

Consider recent reports that internal, Democratic polls revealed that Harris NEVER led Trump during the campaign. And if internal polls indicated that, then external polls (which tend to have larger samples) probably indicated the same thing after adjusting for known sampling biases. And yet the mainstream media (the gold-standard for the curated-content advocates) universally presented the most favorably cooked polling data for the party-in-power. That is hardly the "speaking-truth-to-power" that the media trumpets.

Organizations that are supposedly self-policing have a mediocre-to-dismal record. They tend to evolve into organizations that close-ranks and protect "their own". Cops. Doctors. Academics. Government. No shortage of examples.

Nothing really changes. The first documented reference to "Caveat Emptor" dates back to 1603. I suspect its true origins were much earlier than that. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who shall watch the watchmen?) dates back to the first century and is attributed to Juvenal but it was likely an ancient aphorism even then.