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Just like the last couple of years have turned us all into amateur epidemiologists, the last handful of years have turned us all into amateur epistemologists. T
by m12k 5y ago
Just like the last couple of years have turned us all into amateur epidemiologists, the last handful of years have turned us all into amateur epistemologists. The very foundations of how we as a society collectively decide on what reality is, have come under an adversarial attack. So now we're living through the societal equivalent of realizing that we've been storing passwords in plaintext and have been hacked. We're trying to minimize the damage and fallout, and stop the damage from happening further, all the while trying (and failing) to invent a set of best practices to prevent this from happening again.
- helen___keller 5y ago> So now we're living through the societal equivalent of realizing that we've been storing passwords in plaintext and have been hacked. Or perhaps, we see everyone else around us has their passwords in plain text, but we haven’t yet checked our own. It’s easy to call out low hanging fruit like QAnon or /r/superstonk but harder to personally introspect which major, identity-defining beliefs that I have can be attributed to the global hive mind, and in which ways that made me subject to strange influence by motivated actors.
- Mezzie 5y agoThis is why I rotate my social media/news consumption habits every couple of months. I go from right to left, select a particular bubble to wade into for a while. Then I stop. Switching up your bubbles on purpose makes you more aware of them. It helps that my political beliefs are unorthodox enough that I can agree with most groups about something, though.
- BLKNSLVR 5y agoOr perhaps that's why you can agree with most groups about something. Common ground is key to understanding.