Insider Insights A great wave is coming. Not of water but of truth.
Not real truth: Selected, approved, manipulated and fabricated truth that will engulf each of us from all directions.
The digital age creates new opportunities and presents new dangers to all who engage with information online and as more countries come to rely on the internet for entertainment, commerce, financial security, and news, this ethereal platform on which billions have come to depend will become increasingly deceptive and manipulative.
In this article, I’m going continue my reflection on how increasingly difficult it has become to avoid being deceived, controlled, and manipulated in the modern world but in particular, how something that in theory was meant to unite us, has in fact divided us. Ideological Tilt
Gamblers know the dangers of going into tilt where, on a rush of confidence or despair, enormous bankrolls can easily be lost on foolhardy bets made in moments of panic or misplaced certainty.
We’ve all experienced it ourselves from time to time in our daily lives and with honest reflection, we might recognize where we strayed from balanced decisions to reflex reactions.
At the poker table, bad decisions by opponents can be provoked or anticipated by experienced players using psychology and long-proven tactics that capitalize on a multitude of scenarios and this is extremely similar to how a professional con artist manipulates their victims.
As I’ve stated many times, if I know what you want, I can take everything you have but if I know what you think, I can easily shape how you think.
At the most basic level, this is how scams work but it’s also the secret to politics, propaganda, and population control.One of the enormous downsides to social media has been the ease with which we have become polarized to one worldview or another thanks to algorithms that learn what we like in order to feed us even more of the same, until we find ourselves living inside information bubbles of our own making.As a result, it has become increasingly easy for people to go on ideological tilt where anything that challenges their worldview is […]
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