we used to talk about truthiness, but today's world is beset by falsiness, a pervasive sense among much of the public that things that are likely true are really shams or hoaxes, sheeple.
@interfluidity when you've been lied to by the entire media establishment for long enough, you come to assume that everything they tell you is BS by default.
And the louder and more unanimous they become, the more sure you are that you are being lied to.
@mike805 This one's worth a look if you haven't seen it. https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/why-the-media-is-honest-and-good Usually when the media establishment lies to us, they have lied to themselves first. Which is why we should try to build a very diverse sort of media establishment, one not monoculturally prone to the same kinds of confirmation bias!
@interfluidity read it. And found the problem.
"When I see what those around me think, I have to struggle not to get consumed by all the ways in which they’re wrong about the world."
Anyone who doesn't even consider that the other guy might be right, is a problem.
The media does some good, i.e. the movie "She Said" shows the NYT doing something good. But NYT also covered up for Stalin.
We need two medias. Given there is no consensus worldview any more, there can be no neutral reporting.
@interfluidity this captures the moment so well. There’s so much edifice & artifice to so many interactions, from the phone tree’s you get trapped in when you try and address anything with a company to a public sphere where no one directly involved seems capable of addressing even the most basic moral questions.
