Imposters
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the ‘wet streets cause rain’ stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton
The above is powerful quote from author Michael Crichton. Crichton implies that it would take an everyday physicist to sniff out the errors in a newspaper publication on physics. For the common person (who is not an expert in physics), they don’t know any better but to take the paper at face value.
Most of the media you consume contains the same misinformation. Reduce your consumption - and for the information you consume, just keep their potential agenda in the back of your mind.
We are being manipulated in our news & entertainment constantly. Imposters.
Image of the Day:
Above: “Among Us”, the #1 game right now in the iOS App Store. Players take on one of two roles, most being Crewmates and a couple being Impostors. While crewmates need to find & vote out the imposters, the imposters blend in as best they can, attempting to manipulate & kill the crewmates.