Democracy, technocracy, Marx, ideology, critical theory, identity politics, standpoint theory, free speech, cancel culture, truth, populism, and post-truth| www.conspicuouscognition.com
The survival of the suspicious| www.conspicuouscognition.com
What role do bias and irrationality play in shaping people's political opinions?| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Polarization, populism, and perspective| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Towards a discourse civilizing process| michaelstrong.substack.com
Fake news, media bias, and the misinformation wars.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
People are "naive realists" about politics, treating their beliefs as objective, unbiased, and unmediated interpretations of self-evident facts. I explore the roots of this harmful delusion.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
In "Public Opinion" (1922), Walter Lippmann argued that the vastness, complexity, and invisibility of the modern world make democracy impossible. He got a lot right.| www.conspicuouscognition.com
Have we evolved to love our ingroup? Did our ancestors go through an evolutionary process of self-domestication? Is the occasional genocide just an unfortunate by-product of how friendly we are?| www.conspicuouscognition.com