re: Do you ever wonder just how propagandized you are?

It's called 'Critical Thinking'. Very few people are good at these days.

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The truth is objective, but man, I’m starting to feel like none of us have any idea what’s actually going on in the world.

It’s unsettling

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Yea, you're the one preaching about "paying attention"? Your gospel was the regular retards: CNN, MSDNC and were a big proponent of muh russia so wtf are you ranting about.

lulz

Fair enough. I've had takes people would disagree with. I’m not claiming I’ve got this all figured out and some things I learned, I learned the hard way.

I was more just talking about how people sort through information now - what’s your take on that part?

You have to be hyper-aware of human nature and know that you are not immune from it. 2 of the main culprits are confirmation bias and tribalism. You have to be willing to do a self-audit every once in a while. I’ve always been very mindful of that but nobody can escape it. Awareness of this is a great first step. Most people don’t even get that far.

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I was more just talking about how people sort through information now - what’s your take on that part?

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This concept that you’ve been talking about since page one is known as confirmation bias to most of us. Yes, it’s very difficult to overcome because it’s human nature to choose what we already believe and reject what we don’t.

Yeah, confirmation bias is definitely a big part of it - it’s hard to get around. What’s interesting to me, though, is it seems like a lot of people in this thread feel less confident about what’s true now than they used to. Our basic psychology hasn’t really changed, so it makes me wonder what changed around us and your previous post about the internet and social media is a good start (I think it's a probably a lot of other things as well). Even if it's just that though, how social media and the internet lead people to feel that way bears discussion because plenty of folks don't get how that works and then if we get to that, then how do we fix it.