neolithic media

New media sometimes elicits inappropriate neolithic responses, like fear and xenophobia, from crowds first exposed to it. A classic contemporary example of course is the role of radio in 1930's Germany.

Did development of the printing press play a role in religious intolerance on or around the Renniasance in Europe? More importantly, is the internet playing a similar role in the emergence of "conservative" extremism across the globe today?

beyond social

A media-focus on what nature is saying, rather than only what people are saying, might help.

2-paddle solutions

All these "one oar in the water" narratives about regulation of antibiotics, climate-change, abortion, herd-immunity with vaccines, guns, population, etc. might be seen as classic model-selection problems. For instance, the need for a "smoking gun" e.g. to connect a specific individual pig to a specific individual microbe to a specific illness of a specific individual person may be organism-centric fantasy -- if you drop back to a robust data/model analysis strategy, like agreeing to focus on models that are least-surprised (in a technical sense) by incoming data, folks may be able to work together to tackle these problems understandably while moving their boat along with paddles on both sides of the canoe.

replicable codes

Digital data is the DNA of culture. It deserves to be created & handled with care & respect.

1-paddle arguments

If you want to get down the river safely, you may want to avoid folks (and arguments) that paddle on only one side of the canoe.

self-assembly refocus

Our social systems have by and large evolved to be inhabited by primates that buffer subsystem-correlations associated with between 4 and 5 of the 6 niche-network layers that look inward or outward from self, family or culture. Hence they have to implicitly assume, in effect to protect themselves from and even to build upon, behaviors which are informed to only a limited range of interests.

In some areas, however, long education-times and modern-media are helping to nurture 6-layer primates that don't fit in so well. System participants whose behavior is highly-informed are an especially-important resource that we don't want to waste, so perhaps a re-focus in social-system self-assembly is in order (whether it be to job settings or whatever) to nurture 6-layer primate behaviors (e.g. those whose awareness extends well past the edges of one's own self, family & culture).

What do you think?

balanced narratives

Unbalanced-narratives are low-hanging fruit, to which I'm afraid electronic media of all sorts (not to mention politicians) are at the moment severely addicted. Pick any controversial issue, and you'll find both sides spending virtually (if not literally) all of their time parroting unbalanced-narratives (often with limited or no interest in available data) rather than on the more difficult work of exploring the full picture.

What are some examples of this that you see?