> think, for example, of all the extremely complicated narratives woven to explain COVID-19 As well as the simplistic counter-narratives deployed to combat tho

> think, for example, of all the extremely complicated narratives woven to explain COVID-19 As well as the simplistic counter-narratives deployed to combat those narratives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295618 This isn't a battle of facts vs facts as most people believe, but rather a battle of memes vs memes, where both sides are typically not telling the whole truth, but usually for different reasons. It's fascinating to observe the battle (and forum commentary on the battle) from an abstract perspective, if you can manage it, but not many people seem to even know such a perspective even exists, and it certainly isn't something we're taught in school or at home, at least "in The West".