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embracetheinfinite t1_j428ov7 wrote

I talk about this in my recent book, labeling it as a crisis of information, truth, and trust. It is becoming increasingly difficult to know what is and is not legitimate and that is having some profoundly negative consequences for individual and collective well being.

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urgjotonlkec t1_j42aq6j wrote

What really concerns me is that bias has now started to creep into academia and the scientific community. I always knew you couldn't trust the media spin, but increasingly now you can't even trust the "facts" and the "experts". I don't even know where a person can go now to find truth. I've often said if I were to magically become a Billionaire the thing I would want to spend my money on would be to set up an apolitical research institute that does nothing but try and determine the facts surrounding politicized issues.

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nemoLx t1_j44bfl6 wrote

is the question one of truth and trust, or one of consensus?

long gone are the days where we work in local, small, sub-urban communities and watch the same 30 min evening news and the same front page of the daily gazette or even the NYT/WSJ.

now everyone is subbed to a multitude of personal feeds on a multitude of apps from a multitude of sources, and work with people from all over the world, and no in the post pandemic era, literally virtual talking heads living in different part of the world at the same time.

do we even have a shared reality anymore?

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embracetheinfinite t1_j44cs5f wrote

I'd say both.

T&T because we are surrounded by systems that manipulate our behavior and beliefs for profit.

Consensus, because to your point, the nature of time and our experience as it is changing.

Cosmology and physics have recently revealed some natural authorities that bind our realities together. (infinite universes, the material nature of reality being momentary change)

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