Topics covered in this one:
- Podcasting as writing
- What is real? What can we trust?
- Covid news, election controversies
- The Social Dilemma and our individual realities
- Fake news masquerades generic ideas as facts
- Privacy vs vulnerability
- The Great Hack and weaponizing data
- We must be better at discerning information
- The psychology of conspiracy theories
- Vigilance against corruption
- Reality is satire
- The continued drama of the presidential election
- The current COVID lockdown
- Failures in journalism
- Psychology of isolation and online life
- Sympathies and responsibilities
- Russian hackers and the Mueller report
- The psychology of belief
- 9/11 as a meme
- The Overton window
- Big tech as nanny state
- Jonathan Haidt and the Coddling of the American Mind
- Black Lives Matter as a psy op
- The difficulty of dialogue in this world