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Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

This is a crucial topic of discussion, and I think it's important to acknowledge from the outset that people are living in increasingly seperate realities. Our society relies on shared realities to properly function, and lately they have begun to fracture. Any dialogue has to start from certain agreed assumptions, otherwise they are just monologues happening in parallel. And in that context, meaningful conversations are becoming basically impossible, and any well-sourced argument will just be ignored.

It's largely an epistemological problem. So we're going to need to figure out a way forward within that dynamic, to bridge that divide.

I'll hopefully have more to add later, particularly around the idea of conspiracies and misinformation, but just wanted to throw that out there for now.

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Bucky Fullminster
Apr 13, 2007

Jaxyon posted:

Pushing this thread up to see if there's any interest in adding to it.

Sure, I'll throw this in here. It's long but I think it's worth a look:

https://daniel-ed-morrison.medium.com/we-need-to-talk-about-truth-d977c80c25d

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