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Originally Posted by _indigo1
I care about truth. I am not confused.
I have not given up caring about anything or been beaten into inaction.
The modern age requires information filtering. I pay attention to things I deem worth paying attention to, or that I have some chance of having an influence on.
What is not worth paying attention to is sensationalist finger pointing at corruption that everyone knows exists, likely for political gain or the gain of some other third party.
Putin, whilst he has taken advantage of information warfare brilliantly, cannot claim to be the causal factor in how fucked up American culture, politics, corruption, and the general information landscape has become.
I think you are right that it's an issue of choice paralysis and information overload.
I don't think paying MORE attention to all the possible "truths" out there is
the answer at all.
It's paying LESS attention - being careful with ones attention.
I guess a broad swath of people don't have the faculties or stamina to be that careful with their attention and hence your comment.
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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
That's one response you can have. Another is "It's all so confusing, I need to be very careful what I consider to be the truth and ever cognisant of my limited ability to know what the truth is."
If I don't care, it's because I've got limited capacity for attention and I'm attending to a higher priority.
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Agreed on both points. You're coming to the same conclusion I have, that it's not about trying to absorb every piece of information, it's about trusting fewer, more subjectively reliable sources.
The issue is that all of the people that we disagree with have also come to the same conclusion.
Hence the information/political tribalism that has become one of the key issues of the 21st century so far. I'm right, my sources are right. You're wrong and your sources are wrong, and there's very little you could say or do that would change my mind.