Here’s a fascinating article about the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue at Firdos Square in 2003 – a great case to examine how our desire for compelling stories and images makes us deceive ourselves. Some argue it may have made things worse — enabling the infamous “Mission Accomplished” announcement and causing people to overlook real problems. (More [...]
self-deception
I’m becoming a real fan of Daniel Little’s UnderstandingSociety blog. Here he considers “how good is deliberative democracy?”: The approach that starts and ends with voting among alternatives has a major shortcoming: no one gets a chance to make persuasive arguments to other citizens; no one has the opportunity of having his/her own beliefs challenged; [...]
Tagged as: articulation, deliberation, deliberative democracy, democracy, mindsets, objectivity, process, self-deception, social media, web
Anyone who attended Strathroy District Collegiate Institute in the 1990′s (such majesty) and took OAC Economics with Mr. Hughes will recognize the title. I think he used to say it at least once every class. I mean, bless him for it because it stuck with me and I remind myself of it all the time. It’s [...]
Tagged as: autism, causation, climate change, freeman dyson, global warming, self-deception, social movements, statistics
