Currents 044: Zak Stein on Propaganda and the Information War

Zak Stein & Jim have a wide-ranging talk inspired by two recent Consilience Project essays on the information war & propaganda. They discuss the culture wars as a case of mutually assured destruction, distinguishing education from propaganda, developing widespread resistance to propaganda, epistemic nihilism, key indicators of propaganda, the function of thought-terminating clichés, a typology of propaganda, leaders’ failure to educate rather than propagandize regarding Covid vaccines, modulating noise & chaos in the information ecosystem, redirecting technological innovation toward new goals of educational development, and much more.

* Zak’s Website
* JRS: EP57 Zak Stein on Education in a Time Between Worlds
* JRS: EP60 Zak Stein on Educational Systems Collapse
* JRS: EP62 Zak Stein on Education, Tech & Religion
* JRS: EP 113 Zak Stein on Hierarchical Complexity
* “It’s a MAD Information War” – The Consilence Project
* “WE DON”T MAKE PROPAGANDA! THEY DO!” – The Consilience Project
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