Topics covered in this one:
Podcasting as writingWhat is real? What can we trust?Covid news, election controversiesThe Social Dilemma and our individual realitiesFake news masquerades generic ideas as factsPrivacy vs vulnerabilityThe Great Hack and weaponizing dataWe must be better at discerning information The psychology of conspiracy theories Vigilance against corruptionReality is satire The continued drama of the presidential election The current COVID lockdownFailures in journalismPsychology of isolation and online lifeSympathies and responsibilities Russian hackers and the Mueller report The psychology of belief9/11 as a memeThe Overton windowBig tech as nanny stateJonathan Haidt and the Coddling of the American MindBlack Lives Matter as a psy opThe difficulty of dialogue in this world