Knowledge is the best pursuit mankind can make. Anybody who claims to speak the truth is often a liar. You can trust few people who hold status, often they are driven to subvert the public for their own gain. Only trust science; trust only the things you can calculate.

The flaws of a society are in face mostly harmless. Refocusing effort because a mere fraction of a population doesn't like something impedes progress. The flaws of a (sub)culture however are toxic, and blind sheep who think their culture is right are the reason progress is slowed