Democratic societies, when observed through the lens of deliberation, are reliant upon the exchange of information to reach (something close to) truth. The Greeks at the Agora at Athens regarded deliberative democracy as a means of “weighing” benefit and consequence (Shepard 1935). With such an ideal in mind, one may be lead to look upon the current state of information with favor—after all, the modern individual lives surrounded by information. However, the heightened pool of information and access to it have enticed the modern individual into constructing a space that welcomes pleasant information (that which reinforces resisting beliefs) and banishes the conflicting. Hence, the most significant problem faced by the modern democratic society
