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Ep. 261: The Peaks and Valleys of Online Orthodoxy, Pt. 1, with Fr. Turbo, George Michalopulos, and Alex Braszko

Counterflow with Buck Johnson

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The Importance of Critical Thinking Due Diligence

The two characters are composites of numerous people who he has spoken with over the years. The patterns they represent are becoming all too familiar, naive consumption of information coupled with resistance to performing due diligence on information being consumed and circulated. Alice Thins routinely consumes videos from YouTube that confirm her beliefs about the world, yet rarely does she perform due diligence on the truth content of the video she watches and shares. David himself is extremely naive as he routinely repeats ideas and shares links without first investigating the veracity of the claims.

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