If you consider evolution science then good luck finding out what lie it
is within politics.
Richard Brooks:
The idea of thoughts and ideas being similar to a biological ecosystem
has been around for a while. I think that Richard Dawkins, William
S. Burroughs, and Robert Anton Wilson all have legitimate claims to
having originated the idea. (It is likely to have roots in
antiquity somewhere.)
The US does have a certain anti-intellectualism deep in its
subconscious and at least one (nameless) political party
has worked hard to delegitimize science (evolution,
economics, climate change, ...).
That this would lead eventually to people being susceptible
to having their innate biases exploited by other actors,
is not surprising.
Social media has exacerbated the process.
One idea that I have been playing with is trying to introduce
somewhere in curricula having students use tools/techniques like
those used by Bellingcat to determine the source and motivation
of online campaigns.
I really am impressed by Bellingcat.
On 12/30/20 2:12 PM, Doug Schuler wrote:
An article in the recent Science magazine talked about a “syndemic” which
"is the intersection of two epidemics—two diseases ravaging a population
at the same time, exacerbating each other. HIV weakens the immune
system, for instance, which makes people more likely to develop
tuberculosis. The world witnessed some- thing similar this year. We live
in an eco-system that allows viruses to cross from wildlife to humans
more often and spread farther and faster than ever before—that gave us
SARS-CoV-2. But the virus emerged in an information ecosystem that helps
misinformation and lies spread faster than scientific evidence,
weakening our ability to respond to new threats. That made the pandemic
far worse."
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/370/6523/1395.full.pdf
Without necessarily buying into the entire metaphor it seems pretty
useful, bringing up concepts susceptibility, vulnerable populations,
super spreaders, mode of transmission, and, of course, inoculation.
It also fits well into my investigations into civic intelligence which I
believe is threatened like other natural resources. And if it gets too
low, our ability to address our problems cooperatively becomes ever more
helpless.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!
— Doug
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:49 AM Richard Brooks <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Interesting.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21278601/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-trump-posts-employee-call-fact-checking-voter-misinformation
https://faculty.lsu.edu/fakenews/elections/thethreatofqanon.php
https://www.france24.com/en/20201006-qanon-conspiracies-go-global-in-pandemic-perfect-storm
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1329334?journalCode=rics20
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
On 12/23/20 4:31 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics & Elections - Allum
> Bokhari #Deleted
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJfGphZBmQ
> #Deleted: Big Tech's battle to erase the trump movement and steal
the election
> https://deletedbook.com/
>
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