Where do you get your news from (if you follow the news at all)? Social media? Radio or TV? An old fashioned newspaper? Do you subscribe to specialist sites or magazines to keep you up to date? How many news streams do you follow, and why did you choose them? Most important of all, how do you know whether to believe them?
Thank you for the links. I loved reading the Popper interview. I am curious how other civilizations that may be scattered throughout intergalactic space grapple (or not) with these issues. I will now be a philosophical junkie, stirring these ideas and questions in with literary addictions…
And there’s confirmation bias, and the I-forget-what-it’s-called where if the facts contradict our beliefs, we humans will nearly always side with our beliefs. I’ve seen this in myself in the past. And in dear ones--it’s what made my father fall off the pedestal I had him on back during the Abu Ghraib horrors. All that said, you hit it on open-mindedness. And despite their stance of being purer than the driven snow, most journalists are not (or perhaps it’s their editors, right?). The only solution I have found, but can hardly bear to do it, is read news from all quarters. Then maybe one can triangulate to actuality? Or at a minimum, read skeptically.
It has been quite the journey, watching most of what people were sure was rock-solid truth in the days of my youth fall into a vast gray area of questionable disrepute. But it’s high time to feed my cat: I know this much is indisputable! (But not so much to a bird, perhaps.)
Thank you for the links. I loved reading the Popper interview. I am curious how other civilizations that may be scattered throughout intergalactic space grapple (or not) with these issues. I will now be a philosophical junkie, stirring these ideas and questions in with literary addictions…
And there’s confirmation bias, and the I-forget-what-it’s-called where if the facts contradict our beliefs, we humans will nearly always side with our beliefs. I’ve seen this in myself in the past. And in dear ones--it’s what made my father fall off the pedestal I had him on back during the Abu Ghraib horrors. All that said, you hit it on open-mindedness. And despite their stance of being purer than the driven snow, most journalists are not (or perhaps it’s their editors, right?). The only solution I have found, but can hardly bear to do it, is read news from all quarters. Then maybe one can triangulate to actuality? Or at a minimum, read skeptically.
It has been quite the journey, watching most of what people were sure was rock-solid truth in the days of my youth fall into a vast gray area of questionable disrepute. But it’s high time to feed my cat: I know this much is indisputable! (But not so much to a bird, perhaps.)