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“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas A recent narrative that has been pushed to people is that "truth is relative"
by mgh2 5y ago
“Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
A recent narrative that has been pushed to people is that "truth is relative", leading to today's landscape.
Can't we use data to make people think and reach a common truth? We can't entirely get rid of manipulators, but it is less likely if the scientific method is properly applied.
Ultimately it comes to the integrity of the society backing the information, which is deteriorating, resulting in a feedback loop.
https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22 https://m-g-h.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c22
https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e https://m-g-h.medium.com/why-we-are-dispensable-7a577eba4f3e
- etripe 5y agoTruth being relative is a recent phenomenon, but only from a historian's perspective. Post-modernism has been mainstream for three, four decades. I don't see it going away any time soon, because it's awfully compatible with our marketing driven economies. What matters (and coincidentally, sells) is not what reality is, but the stories you can tell about it. Not vanilla or chocolate, but liberty (0). Covid became a very partisan issue across the world, despite the numbers being clear. So have climate change, incarceration versus rehabilitation, drug legalisation versus prohibition, increasing minimum wages, single-payer healthcare systems, quantitative easing or austerity. It doesn't seem to me the data was ever the problem. Are you arguing basic scientific literacy is? [0] https://www.quotes.net/mquote/129661 https://www.quotes.net/mquote/129661
- mgh2 5y agoYes maybe, but most importantly, critical thinking and ethics