Critical thinking is the new thought crime?
Published: Wed, 06/09/21
For example, not long ago, The New York Times ran an article with the headline:
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Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.
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And then it tried to make the case that:
1. More people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than at perhaps any other point in human history.
Which is true, and ironic coming from the NYT.
2. That so-called “information warfare” is an unfair fight for the average internet user
Which is completely false.
It’s the exact opposite.
The magnificent documentary called "The Creepy Line" (you can watch on Amazon Prime) dispels that particularly stinky pile of horse pewp quite well. Specifically, when it shows that because big tech platforms — the ones who have set themselves up as the gatekeepers of what is misinformation or not — manipulate search results, they are taking away freedom, while the piles of other information — true or false — actually give people the choice to think & decide for themselves.
Such is the world we live in now:
Up is down, left is right, good is bad, dogs are cats.
I will talk more about The Creepy Line documentary in the very near future.
In the meantime:
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After multiple software launches I’ve seen how it ain’t like info products.
By that I mean, you don’t want thousands of people piling in right away. That only makes for a lot of frustrated & unhappy customers. It’s much better to grow slowly and roll out over time. Thus, the Friday deadline to get your free test drive may get abruptly shortened without warning. And, even people who get in for the test drive may not be able to buy for a while if you linger too long to make a decision once inside. And of course if that happens where we close it early due to demand… and you wait too long to buy it after taking your test drive, you will miss out on the above savings.
We shalt see how it goes.
Really, it all depends on the demand.
So this does not favor the procrastinator.
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Ben Settle