epistemics
truth is not the default. We have atomized bespoke realities now.
epistemics
The reality is that no matter how intelligent you are, if everyone you trust is telling you something false, you are likely to believe it. And if everyone you distrust tells you something true, you are likely to disbelieve it. As the writer
Will Wilkinson wrote in 2022
, “Building a relatively accurate mental model of the world doesn’t have all that... See more
Will Wilkinson wrote in 2022
, “Building a relatively accurate mental model of the world doesn’t have all that... See more
Archive Link Summary - The Atlantic idea piece
What is ultimately being sold is the feeling that consumers can prove they’re smarter than those snooty experts who think they know everything—and who probably are in on the conspiracy to deprive you of the truth.
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As Gilroy-Ware puts it, “Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion.”
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The postmoderns may have been impenetrable, but their best insight was simple enough, arguing that reality was socially constructed and that truth was unstable.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
The abundance of options means that politics, like everything else, become more personalized than universal. This is something the notorious postmodern thinkers had grasped long before everyone else. The French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard was already sounding the alarm in his 1979 book, The Postmodern Condition. He had diagnosed how human
... See moreZac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
The Birther campaign was never about proving Obama’s Kenyan birth or removing him from office. As Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum have pointed out, when it comes to conspiracies, “the power to make people affirm the message is the power to impose reality.”
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
for better and for worse, the multiplicity and scale of digital media effectively brought the age of consensus to an end, it did not return us to an age of common sense.
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
we are, in a way, going back to the pre-20th century, where culture is actually just a bunch of cults stacked on top of each other, a bunch of mini local realities stacked on top of each other, and that we maybe will never have anything like monoculture ever again.