Great article, it is very crucial to investigate the honesty in communication.
I believe we have to make progress from these widely known ideas and aspects, and this is possible by widening our attention to things known in other civilisations.
1. Static view on matters is inaccurate and does not prevent catastrophy. The world is a procedure, an autopoietic mechanism that changes all the time, while remaking itself. The West is obsessed with "to be", with negligence of "to become". Therefor, truth is a procedure, and its meaning is to participate, not to dominate, enforce, lock in, hoodwink others.
Study and discuss about Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana, on the topic "Truth is the Invention of a Liar". This is a lot about the dynamics of reality, and the false quest to conquer it like fighting about an asset.
2. It seems that some changes and emerging relationships are overlooked, and this is happening between the European West and both the American civilisation and some Asian intellectual universes. This regards the role of individuals that live with some aspects of neurodiversity.
One reason of enmity towards them is that most of them are fairly blind to the lies in nonverbal communication. You cannot cheat them with Powell's method. They will say "where is the meat?" and call out the viole of alleged bioweapon, not tricked by serious attitude. There is enough things to criticise with individuals like Elon Musk. But the alleged sinister motivations don't exist in the way it is portrayed by the hateful media. Now in Europe such individuals are not supposed to have any bigger careers, and all the social cues are being used against them. But in the current US government, and then in engineering, also engineering in Asian countries, such guys are successful and they create a lot of change. European society is even attempting to destroy careers that take place in American government and industry, coming from suspicion that these people are dangerous, especially to the plans of status quo elites.
In short, there are personalities and mentalities that are able to break the fog of lies, and if motivated, they will contribute their abilities, but they are left alone or ostracised, especially in Europe and especially in progressive political groups. They instantly make the human mind the topic, in a static way, when it should be about emergent facts and progress of agendas. There should not be an attempt to undo what is happening in the Trump government, especially not from European politicians. There should be a conversation about how to make the changes more authentic and honest, and how to find the best direction of further action, based on reality, not on dreams, lies, and normative power that is self-serving more than it serves humanity.
We should not generalize this, but look at it case by case, to avoid loss of agency. Some individuals are helpful but neglected, but others are perhaps not goodwilling and not able. But there is only discussion about behavior, problems with language, and how evil somebody is.
3. There is the "List of Fallacies". It should be taught in all high schools and colleges. There should be training and rehearsal about fighting on that playground and doing something actually good, and about rejecting abuse of these rhetorical tactics.
4. Dr. Jose Rizal has a very interesting approch on honesty and goodwill in a society. It is difficult to address the full spectrum of that in a comment. Basically he says that "social cancer" is a tool of colonialism, and today we should become aware of that and see, that there is also domestic colonial system, the people get treated like they were the lifestock of oligarchs, just numbers in their books.
An important sign, because it regards communication and relationship, is that these oligarchies do never share identity with the normal people. They are "more equal" like Orwellian pigs, but Rizal has a lot more and very realistic detail on such relationships.
5. We find ourselves in a permanent endless loop of nonlinear tactics in communication. This means a linear solution as suggested is fairly powerless. But we should make the Epimenides very transparent and obvious. Communication is always circular, and nonlinearity in communication is mainly circular, so this comes natural.
Suggestions like a board of fact-checking, and demand of algorithmic transparency, these are unrealistic, theoretical concepts that make sense only as a substrate of conversation, and training of rational thought. Fact-checkers cannot decide about facts without becoming tyrants. There is a huge problem with causality, too often some alleged facts aren't, or become known way too late. People need support in checking facts themselves, finding more and better sources, and then also to use the FOIA to enforce the release of information and data.
Algorithms are very volatile, and there is basic imperfection in them, and current AI is not even based on algorithms, but on mimicking the whole world, which fails because copyright and secrecy make the bigger and important part of the world unavailable to AI. Except AI that is being built exclusively for serving the oligarchy.
Great article, it is very crucial to investigate the honesty in communication.
I believe we have to make progress from these widely known ideas and aspects, and this is possible by widening our attention to things known in other civilisations.
1. Static view on matters is inaccurate and does not prevent catastrophy. The world is a procedure, an autopoietic mechanism that changes all the time, while remaking itself. The West is obsessed with "to be", with negligence of "to become". Therefor, truth is a procedure, and its meaning is to participate, not to dominate, enforce, lock in, hoodwink others.
Study and discuss about Heinz von Foerster and Humberto Maturana, on the topic "Truth is the Invention of a Liar". This is a lot about the dynamics of reality, and the false quest to conquer it like fighting about an asset.
2. It seems that some changes and emerging relationships are overlooked, and this is happening between the European West and both the American civilisation and some Asian intellectual universes. This regards the role of individuals that live with some aspects of neurodiversity.
One reason of enmity towards them is that most of them are fairly blind to the lies in nonverbal communication. You cannot cheat them with Powell's method. They will say "where is the meat?" and call out the viole of alleged bioweapon, not tricked by serious attitude. There is enough things to criticise with individuals like Elon Musk. But the alleged sinister motivations don't exist in the way it is portrayed by the hateful media. Now in Europe such individuals are not supposed to have any bigger careers, and all the social cues are being used against them. But in the current US government, and then in engineering, also engineering in Asian countries, such guys are successful and they create a lot of change. European society is even attempting to destroy careers that take place in American government and industry, coming from suspicion that these people are dangerous, especially to the plans of status quo elites.
In short, there are personalities and mentalities that are able to break the fog of lies, and if motivated, they will contribute their abilities, but they are left alone or ostracised, especially in Europe and especially in progressive political groups. They instantly make the human mind the topic, in a static way, when it should be about emergent facts and progress of agendas. There should not be an attempt to undo what is happening in the Trump government, especially not from European politicians. There should be a conversation about how to make the changes more authentic and honest, and how to find the best direction of further action, based on reality, not on dreams, lies, and normative power that is self-serving more than it serves humanity.
We should not generalize this, but look at it case by case, to avoid loss of agency. Some individuals are helpful but neglected, but others are perhaps not goodwilling and not able. But there is only discussion about behavior, problems with language, and how evil somebody is.
3. There is the "List of Fallacies". It should be taught in all high schools and colleges. There should be training and rehearsal about fighting on that playground and doing something actually good, and about rejecting abuse of these rhetorical tactics.
4. Dr. Jose Rizal has a very interesting approch on honesty and goodwill in a society. It is difficult to address the full spectrum of that in a comment. Basically he says that "social cancer" is a tool of colonialism, and today we should become aware of that and see, that there is also domestic colonial system, the people get treated like they were the lifestock of oligarchs, just numbers in their books.
An important sign, because it regards communication and relationship, is that these oligarchies do never share identity with the normal people. They are "more equal" like Orwellian pigs, but Rizal has a lot more and very realistic detail on such relationships.
5. We find ourselves in a permanent endless loop of nonlinear tactics in communication. This means a linear solution as suggested is fairly powerless. But we should make the Epimenides very transparent and obvious. Communication is always circular, and nonlinearity in communication is mainly circular, so this comes natural.
Suggestions like a board of fact-checking, and demand of algorithmic transparency, these are unrealistic, theoretical concepts that make sense only as a substrate of conversation, and training of rational thought. Fact-checkers cannot decide about facts without becoming tyrants. There is a huge problem with causality, too often some alleged facts aren't, or become known way too late. People need support in checking facts themselves, finding more and better sources, and then also to use the FOIA to enforce the release of information and data.
Algorithms are very volatile, and there is basic imperfection in them, and current AI is not even based on algorithms, but on mimicking the whole world, which fails because copyright and secrecy make the bigger and important part of the world unavailable to AI. Except AI that is being built exclusively for serving the oligarchy.