The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch

Rauch explains how today all of this is threatened from both the right and the left. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. The constitution of knowledge makes a very strong claim: a claim to supremacy in organizing social decision-making about what is and is not reality (much as the U.S. Rauch argues that we have built modern society on what he calls a constitution of knowledge: a set of rules, ideas, and institutions that inform our laws, science, social and political order, academia, and journalism. little things like that that make a difference, we don't know yet but there's a lot of people focus on the problem and that's why i'm not willing to say it's not rationality buti'm willing to say it's important that we not just assume the good guys win. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth Jonathan Rauch 4.26 1,133 ratings185 reviews Arming Americans to defend the truth from today's war on facts Disinformation. a psychologist would probably say you know, that's just a smart little water for to remind people to use rational brain instead of just tweet on instinct. twitter now just this morning i tweeted a link without reading it because i'd already read it but twitter didn't know that before they let me tweeted out they put up a billboard that said are you sure you want to this without reading it. we see social media trying to redesign its platforms so that they're less hostile to truth. Emergence of international networks of academic enters that are not only putting disinformation and viral lies, they're going inside the networks to get ahead of them so they can alert social media.

The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch