When institutions fail us, knowing how to be a skeptic & how to analyze information becomes a survival skill. For the vast majority of us, this simply hasn't been true for our entire lives. We had reliable (or reliable enough) institutions. We didn't have to know how to separate
“Possibility vs. measurement” framing. Those days of reliable institutions have been eroding for a long time, but are truly over now. The problem is most people don't realize it, so when people are ringing alarm bells people too easily dismiss it. This is called epistemic shock.
For most of our lives, we didn’t need strong skepticism skills. Institutions filtered reality for us well enough.
You could assume that if something mattered, it would be detected, communicated, and acted on. That assumption is no longer safe.
You could assume that if something mattered, it would be detected, communicated, and acted on. That assumption is no longer safe.
I think the first & most clear example of this is the failures of the response to C*VID. When "airborne in the military sense" was uttered, the rapid degradation began. It's only accelerated since. Now it includes everything from vaccines to environmental pollutants.
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