Rejecting False Narratives: Pragmatic Uncertainty Approach

Resisting manipulation in the era of mass deception. Part 1.

Pragmatic Uncertainty Approach

Resisting manipulation in the era of mass deception. Part 1.

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The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Abstract

This is the first paper in the series: “Rejecting False Narratives”. The goal of those papers is to provide the readers with the simple yet effective methods that would decrease their vulnerability to being deceived by the unscrupulous manipulators from both sides of polarized political spectrum. In the current era of severe political polarization - the public forum is flooded with wild speculation, misinformation, propaganda and outright lies which are inter-mixed with rare genuinely true information. In the midst of such informational chaos, it is very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Two essential skills are needed to see through the fog of false narratives. Those skills are the ability to accept the uncerta…