Thread by @RadCentrism

1/15🧵A major obstacle to fixing our #LowIQPandemic is "à la carte reality" (ALCR), which is information silo-ization hardened by scaled confirmation bias.

The democratization of information has obvious & great benefits. BUT it's enabled ALCR.

A quick example=Covid "knowledge."

2/ Covid has been such a clusterfuck that I hesitate to analyze how we ended up here in a quick 🧵.

But no matter the diagnosis, we can agree on the result: most ppl have preferred sources for Covid info/narratives.

Now—having preferred sources is NOT *ipso facto* a problem.

3/ But it IS a problem if 99+% of ALL info sources are *fatally* wrong.

Here's a Dunning-Kruger (DK) metaphor.

Those in the top %tile of Covid knowledge—on the "Plateau of Sustainability" like @R_H_Ebright—can see reality but have no way of enlightening (at scale) those below.

4/ Why not?

B/c "Narrative Demagogues" have made permanent campsites on the DK ascent.

They've amassed followers at these DK camps and made alliances with other amateur camps. Their shared goal?

A social media pact/narrative that THEY are in fact the real Plateau Polymaths:

5/ (Narrative Demagogues include but are not limited to: Covid death denialists or fatalists of all sorts, "expert" lab-leak denialists, those who intentionally misrepresent the efficacy or goals of lockdowns, those who love Fauci or hate Fauci for the wrong reasons, and more.)

6/ Furthermore, those on the Plateau aren't all polymathic. Many are just super high-IQ specialists who (1) don't have the requisite communication skills to explain reality; (2) are poisoned by political ideologies; (3) are over-specialized myopics; (4) some combo of 1-3.

7/ So: assume a small % of those on the Plateau/summit ARE sufficiently polymathic and DO have the skills necessary to convince and explain reality to DK campers. Let's also say these Plateau Polymaths could fix Covid—& fast.

They're STOPPED by scaled à la carte reality (ALCR).

8/ Their knowledge does not—as it should—enflame the DK slopes like a wildfire...b/c as soon as there's a potential hot spot, the Narrative Demagogues and their followers stamp it out.

This stamping out is an @EricRWeinstein-ian Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC).

9/ More reading on that: theportal.wiki/wiki/The_Distr…

10/ But the stamping out is REALLY a *symptom* of the #LowIQPandemic—the mother of all DISCs. It can spawn an infinite number of small, segmented DISCs OR enormous, scalable DISCs.

Now, add widespread emotional exhaustion (some necessary, some avoidable), and we get mass ALCR.

11/ Why is ALCR so bad?

It conflates all objective and subjective reality, feeding into Social Constructionist all-opinions-are-equal, everyone-gets-a-trophy bullshit. This paradigm blinds us to obvious truths, extending our suffering.

Radical Centrists try to avoid this BS:

12/ So what's the FIX?

1) Understand the problem; follow the hashtag.
2) Proximately, break the power of Narrative Demagogues. Heed the Polymaths and help them start a high-IQ wildfire.
3) Ultimately, cure the #LowIQPandemic by revolutionizing education:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1362108759695183872?s=20

13/ What might that revolution look like?

It's gotta start by fixing this stuff:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1363895525506912260?s=20

14/ And this stuff. Fundamentally, it's a revolution that returns us to most aspects of pre-1970s education:

https://twitter.com/RadCentrism/status/1370818303938101249?s=20

15/ More to come...some other time.