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This shift from genuine understanding to embracing popular but misguided ideas underscores a broader pattern of societal gullibility. The speaker points out how people they know could go from admiration to parroting politically correct, fashionable, or sensationalist narratives fed to them by trusted media outlets. This change is often swift and seemingly subconscious—the result of being influenced by what the media deems important or interesting at the moment.