“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” --Oscar Wilde Two lessons that we all need to have drummed into our heads as part of critical thinking training: I. A ton of the information you’ve heard about contemporary issues is bogus – outright false, cherry-picked, distorted, or otherwise severely misleading. (I’m sure you already know that “the other side” does that. Well, your side does it too.) I really had no idea how bad the situation was when I was younger (or maybe it was less bad then?). The longer I live, the more bullshit I see. My default reaction to politically relevant information that people give me is now “I bet that’s not true. I bet that if I go look it up on Google, I’m going to find out that what you’re telling me is bogus, in some way that I can’t now anticipate.”
Subtle Truths, I: Police Violence
Subtle Truths, I: Police Violence
Subtle Truths, I: Police Violence
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” --Oscar Wilde Two lessons that we all need to have drummed into our heads as part of critical thinking training: I. A ton of the information you’ve heard about contemporary issues is bogus – outright false, cherry-picked, distorted, or otherwise severely misleading. (I’m sure you already know that “the other side” does that. Well, your side does it too.) I really had no idea how bad the situation was when I was younger (or maybe it was less bad then?). The longer I live, the more bullshit I see. My default reaction to politically relevant information that people give me is now “I bet that’s not true. I bet that if I go look it up on Google, I’m going to find out that what you’re telling me is bogus, in some way that I can’t now anticipate.”