I've been thinking about this for a while: How do we seriously fight back on the trend of people embracing lie after lie and being in total denial of reality? You may say this isn't new. Agreed, to an extent. But it's the magnitude of it that to me is startling lately. 1/
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I do think we really need to stop being nice about it, for one. No more pretending that "both sides have merit" or "that's just, like, and opinion, man." That is to say, I think smart people need to start asserting themselves a lot more. Social invalidation is powerful. 2/
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I'm pretty confident about this: It's not going to "fix itself". You might want think that the reality of situations is going to speak for itself. Like, the Covid-19 spikes in states where they're being belligerently stupid would speak for themselves. Reality biting back. 3/
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But I think we've seen that won't be enough. There will just be a new lie to explain that away. Something something George Soros/Clinton/Gates etc. We can't keep letting this happening. It's literally a matter of life or death now. 4/
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Agreed, though it is no use if your voice is stuck in the echo chamber of Twitter. A large part of the madness of the last few years has to be due to isolating nature of social media platforms.
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Totally agreed. I've been considering dumping remaining social media for that reason. Jaron Lanier wrote a great book on this: https://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Deleting-Social-Media-Accounts/dp/1250239087/ref=sr_1_1 …?
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