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True Enough:

Learning to Live in

a Post-Fact Society

by

Farhad Manjoo

“At the same time that technology

and globalization has pushed the

world together, it is driving our

minds apart”

Better-Never situation (Gopnick,

2011)

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• Selective exposure

How human process

information ?

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People choose the

information that

suits their ideology

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• Selective perception

How human interpret documentary proof ?

People interpret documentary

proof according to their long held

belief

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Conspiracy theorist believe

that they saw missiles

attached to the plane

That is what they

want to see

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I saw a plane I saw a missile

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• Peripheral processing

How human decide whom to believe?

People tend to make decision

peripherally when we simply don’t

understand the details of the case

at hand

They choose their personal

versions of truth by subscribing to

the specialist they find agreeable

and trustworthy.

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Therefore, I will

find “experts” that

support my belief