4 of the many reasons why you should never trust news reports (or your friends' posts)
Please do your own research before reacting
The clickbait headlines and the unvetted sharing of sensationalist posts seem to increase by the hour.
Feels like a good time for a few reminders…
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Perception management keeps escalating. When I was much younger, I'd clip newspaper articles and use them to keep track of the narrative/bullshit development. When I went back over them, it eventually became easy to spot the emotionalism, meretricious logical fallacies, attempts to cultivate confirmation bias, distracting nonsense. Digitial of course is much faster, more frantic, higher volume. There's still very little signal and massive amounts of noise. Some of that is intentional, but most comes from internalised values.
that is why we are on Substack. There is no truth to be found in the regular news outlets. And here is a very good article (I think) that adds on to your book, which I am still reading LOL. Will take a while - reading 7 books at once now. https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/the-united-apostates-of-america