we may have arrived in an era of permanent fake news, with no possibility of authoritative common ground on anything
how do you adapt to/survive in such an info environment?
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Or we are now unavoidably aware of a condition that has always existed.
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Nope. Internet didn’t exist before. It’s a comforting false rationalization to think things haven’t really changed.
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And I don't find it comforting to assume it's always been true. Opposite. Humans prefer narratives of "past was better/safer". I don't think true. I think hard truth is that info probably better now than then.
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Past it was easier to believe you knew the truth. Today it's easier to feel overwhelmed by realization that truth often impossible to know. Latter is a better worldview IMO, but way more stressful.
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Not quite. Past we were more disconnected so it was less consequential to live in our own bubbles of local village scale superstition.
Now we have 7 billion co-extensive planet scale superstition zones.
Past was easier to be infosafe in

