Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #1235 –
C'mon guys, let's keep it civil.
My perception on much of this SARS-CoV-2 debate follows my observations about political debate on things like climate change, health and economics. It's clear some debate this in good faith, while others do not.
Seemingly the concept of debating in good faith is absent from much of the social media commentary, and absent from quite a lot of modern media reporting, that seems to be due to the lack of stewardship, ownership and curation. In the old days of reporting all media reporting had attached to it stewardship, ownership and oversight(curation). Anonymity is the main problem, nobody posting crap can be exposed or identified, they feel safe behind a wall of crap!
Modern social media likes to overload the concept of curation with paranoia, the idea that something that is edited is somehow tainted, but in reality serious curation improves content by throwing out he rubbish, while uncurated content delivers the message rubbish and all, which requires the reader to wade through and sort the rubbish from reality. In the extreme those debating without good faith flood the debate with crap, bastardised cherry picked selective facts and misinforation, it is not an accident, it is a deliberate tactic that relies on the reader assuming the total content is provided in good faith.
The worst case of debating without good faith is obviously Trump and Bannon, they basically fill the airwaves with crap. Bannon is alleged to have previously publicly stated his tactic is to fill the media with so much crap content that nobody can tell crap from substance, it's bad news for everybody because the vast majority of the public are not aware of this malintent.
The good news is simply this. Once you become cognisant of the fact that not all debate is engaged in good faith, you can quickly and easily start to recognise the patterns of malintent. That little bit of knowledge effectively exposes, flushes and thoroughly removes all the crap from the debate with almost zero effort!