How to Find Truth in a Post-Truth World / Redaktsiya
How consistent is our personal worldview with reality? Why is it so hard to make someone change their mind even when your reasoning is well-founded and strongly supported? Presently, these questions hold particular relevance, because it seems that people tend to form their own reality within the confines of their social media feeds and echo chambers, all the while claiming everything that doesn’t correspond with their worldview is propaganda or fake news.
Is that really the case, though? Where does our tendency of only seeing what we want to see and cherry-picking facts that confirm our viewpoint stem from? Can we fight it? Should we?
Does objectivity even exist? Or has the mere definition of it become manipulatory? Redaktsiya’s latest episode explores the issue of elusive objectivity.
Contents:
00:00 Does objectivity exist?
05:15 Why is “the concept of a just world” unjust?
07:04 How we unconsciously look only for the things that prove us right
11:02 The danger of “tunneling”
17:05 “No one perceives your words exactly how you mean them”.
20:18 What is an echo chamber?
23:04 Are informational bubbles created by social media or by people themselves?
27:32 Is Trump the cause or the effect of the US polarization?
31:10 Why fake news doesn’t exist
34:07 CNN vs FOX News
38:05 Does “Succession” desacralize power?
40:02 The difference between biased approaches in Russia and the US
42:08 The information war’s frontline: from Telegraph to Telegram
45:23 Can you get your point across from one informational bubble to another?
50:05 Our social connections and the way they influence our opinion
55:02 Our personal takeaway from this episode
