When leaders violate norms without consequence, shared “common knowledge” fractures. Media silos and social segregation also deepen polarization by erasing a common civic reality. Full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTQsOBLEIV8 For more on common knowledge, see my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life | Steven Pinker
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When leaders violate norms without consequence, shared “common knowledge” fractures. Media silos and social segregation also deepen polarization by erasing a common civic reality. Full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mTQsOBLEIV8 For more on common knowledge, see my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life | Steven Pinker
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Below I explain the concept behind my new book: When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life https://bit.ly/3FgucEQ "I came to the topic of common knowledge, that is, everyone knowing that everyone knows that everyone knows something, through my interest in language. In language, most of what we say isn't exactly what we mean. People say things like, if you could pass the salt, that would be awesome. And that's not literally
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Me: What the Trump administration is doing by this trolling—by this contempt for standards of evidence, truth, sound argument—is what many dictators have done. Namely, not so much lie, because people can see through lies. But just as Steve Bannon put it, flood the zone with—we're on the radio—so, flood the zone with feces; he didn’t use the word feces. That is, spread so much nonsense, some things that are true, some things that are false, that people just feel there’s no way to tell the differe
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