chand1986
2022-09-05 19:48:43
- #1
And there we have the problem in one sentence: How do YOU know what propaganda is and what is not, which information is true and which is fake? I can only do that very well in areas where I have my own expertise. I also claim that it cannot be any other way. So I ask myself every time, where all the amateur war experts, amateur international lawyers, amateur virologists, amateur national coaches, and more recently also amateur physicists get all their profound knowledge from. I know: They read blog posts instead of scholarly articles. YT videos instead of raw data. Attend lectures by people who themselves once heard something from someone who once heard something. It simply can’t be any other way. No one has the time and ability to perform raw data analysis in all relevant fields. One can either abstain from an opinion or look for sources that one finds trustworthy. Which leads to the question of what one finds trustworthy? Quite simple: That which tells you what you have always thought anyway. Because you no longer consider that you might be wrong. And just like that, you are in the bubble. In an increasingly complex world, laziness in self-questioning is more harmful than ever before, but instead of seeing it as a flaw, it is seen as strength of opinion, authenticity, “plain speaking.” , YOU cannot know what is spread here by whom and why as true or as fake. YOU selectively always include exactly the information that fits into the puzzle you want to complete. To a certain extent, we all do that. Humans can’t help it.3) Anyone who really believes that only Russian state television spreads propaganda and that they receive serious information from ZDF and ARD lives on another planet.