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#348 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Building Better Sensemaking

Modern Wisdom

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There's a quote from last year it was in the Times I've got this newspaper clipping Matthew Syed said when we feel uncertain when randomness intrudes upon our lives we respond by reintroducing order in some other way superstitions and conspiracy theories speak to this need. For some it makes more sense to believe that we are threatened by the grand plans of malign scientists than the chance mutation of a silly little microbe 15 months hence now with the lab leak hypothesisThis feels even more sort of new one's interesting but yeah that compensates. The best narrative warfare takes the truth of good and the beautiful distorts them all a little. It almost makes it seem like believing that belief is aligned

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