▲ | mallowdram 2 days ago | |||||||
The missing link to our epistemic collapse is language. The acceleration of language, which is arbitrary, accelerates language distortion. The contagion on social media is merely a symptom of the disease of language. “Historical language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2102061118 | ||||||||
▲ | throawaywpg 2 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
acceleration? as in the literal speed at which we translate information through language? | ||||||||
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