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Staying Sane in an Age of Narratives

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The Age of Narratives

I don't know how to tell what's true anymore, I feel like we live in post-modernity now. Some news is real, some news is fake, which makes it more or less impossible to tell which is which. Cable news is terrible for this, all punditry, it's some talking head who seems to know everything and he says it was so much confidence every time. We're not really learning about politics usually, we're just entrenching ourselves on our sides,. Study the perception gap study that talked about how each side perceives the views of the other sideIt showed very, very clearly that the more one engages with the news, the wider their perception gap

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