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RE: Surviving A Post Truth World
I agree with everything you said except for the solution (although it is an effective one).
There are a couple of reasons why I must disagree with it:
- We live in the world where being informed quickly is becoming more and more valuable. Imagine that you found out about Steemit a year later than you did, for example. Or, imagine that you find out about some concert that you want to go to one month after it happens. Not very convenient.
- Many sources are impossible (or extremely unwise) for us to shut off. For example, we do check out Steemit every day because we enjoy it and profit from it. I also check out Facebook everyday since it is a place where I get informed about the local tango events. Since we can't avoid some of the sources, it's better to check out multiple sources so that we can compare them and estimate what is true and what is false.
- Most of us are living in Democracy or "Democracy". Either way, we have an opportunity to vote for political parties, presidents, etc. If we don't do this, then other people will do this for us, and the majority of the population is, unfortunately, not smart and informed enough to make meaningful voting. Needless to say, in order to be able to vote effectively, we should try to stay informed.
Exactly! I elaborated a little regarding your 3rd item in my other comment to this article if you were curious about the bad result of this shutting out. I wrote it to inform you of the bad consequences of that.
Nice elaboration.
I would like to add one more very similar example: Brexit happened because of the votes of the older people. I can't remember the exact statistics, but the age differences were extremely obvious, with the vast majority of the people older than 60 voting "for" and the vast majority of the people younger than 30 voting "against". It's because the younger population has much better access to information and is thus much more open-minded and able to think critically. Cheers!
I know the cases. They are all linked together. It's something that we need to do in the future to prevent this. And stop using Facebook for getting news which is a bubble creator in itself.