At the moment, I gotta commend you for your common sense and open minded approach to all this. I try like hell to do the same. I don't like being duped and lied to and look at most everything with high scrutiny but with the idea of possibility, too. I've seen and experienced much, in this regard and still see no reason to jump on any bandwagons going this way or that. I sit and I wait and I watch. And rules…? Uh…no. Not much for rules, I am. You really seem to have spent a good deal of time thinking along the same lines as I with the same understandings. I hope it continues to serve you well.
I wish, back in the early days of the net, I had been downloading all the things I found. Our lives have been manipulated to rely solely upon the internet for all data while, at the same time, much of that data is steadily being erased/concealed/altered, etc.. to where, one day, we'll find ourselves in a real life Brave New World/1984/Fahrenheit 451 situation and won't being able to do jack shit about it. My generation was not nearly vigilant enough and the ones before much less so, in this regard. Sooner or later, all "truths" will just be facades and we won't know any better if we don't stay on top of it hard. Most have already been corralled. It's just a matter of leading them down the bang stick chute, now.