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SERIOUSLY INFOXICATED...

"Infoxication". Do you ever heard about this concept?

How can we decide if a news it's real or not (said that sources are often scarcely reported)? Do we have to rely on our own concept of "trust" in a person/institution? Are we going to create a collective wisdom or looseness?

I think it's just too serious to be left to an ads...

 

 

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May 26, 2011
Giorgio said...
Curiously i've been reflecting on this in the last few days thinking to the problem from a storyteller point of view. How ethic is to sell what you don't trust? We should teach ethic in schools but I guess this suggestion could rise even bigger ethic problems to me.
One point is that everybody must stay ethic, but the man can fail and sometimes looks for other goals rather than pursuing ethic values. But also the idea of having an ethic control system punishing unethic actions sounds scaring.
In the movie "Thank you for smoking" the main character explains to his kid how to sell a personal truth by arguing a personal point of view.
As truth is multiform and changes according to different people because so it is perception, and changes also according to the same people in different times, as the brain recreates, cuts and merges memories. In a country, this truth is interpreted by the law system and should be checked by ethic journalists but actually the situation in Milan, where everybody sells her/his personal truth, fits nicely in this reflection.
I believe knowledge and culture are the main tools we have to reach a bigger understanding and therefore decide in which direction to put trust. What about Wikipedia? Should we trust it? trust them? or peraphs trust us? Are there people consciously spreading looseness? Unfortunately I think so. And in which context? Unfortunately I think in a lot of context, but also is my belief, and I hope you agree with me, that they are not the majority of people so overall we're still building a collective wisdom (considering the cancellation of some topics from italian history teachings just a slip to patch up).

PS: I love design because I can study everything I want and argue that I'm a designer and I need it for my job!

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