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Random thoughts that I might not fully agree with myself but that I think it’s interesting to think about: What if the solution to misinformation is _more_ inf
by GaylordTuring 4y ago
Random thoughts that I might not fully agree with myself but that I think it’s interesting to think about:
What if the solution to misinformation is _more_ information? If 99 % of all information that you come across is wrong (and you know it), you’re forced to start thinking critically or just believe in random things.
That is, if someone believes that we’ve never been to the Moon, feed them with information of the same logical structure that we’ve never been to the North pole. If someone believe that a politician is guilty of something just because he’s been accused of it, make the same accusations towards one hundered other random politicians. If someone is seeing ghosts, tell them that you’ve been seeing dinosaur ghosts in ballerina costumes.
In order to not die in such an environment because you haphazardly eat led for breakfast, you’re forced to develop critical thinking skills.
- themitigating 4y agoDo people have the time to process all the information on a subject? Will they understand it all? It's much more complex to explain how we landed on the moon then to say we didn't. Will people let a bias affect them when processing information?
- base698 4y ago> Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group. This practice of creating circumstances and of creating pictures in the minds of millions of persons is very common. Virtually no important undertaking is now carried on without it, whether the enterprise be building a cathedral, endowing a university, marketing a moving picture, floating a large bond issue, or electing a president. Bernays almost 100 years ago. The solution is more propaganda.