I am with you on most of this, and I'm often struck by the cognitive dissonance of, say, reading restaurant reviews and news of starvation in the same newspaper. However, just to make it clear, have you been to Gaza, as you say you saw it with your own eyes? Or did you see it on a news channel or on social media like the rest of us? These little things are going to matter more and more as we re-enter an alt-truth era bolstered by AI, when we will have to interrogate every single fact.
I am with you on most of this, and I'm often struck by the cognitive dissonance of, say, reading restaurant reviews and news of starvation in the same newspaper. However, just to make it clear, have you been to Gaza, as you say you saw it with your own eyes? Or did you see it on a news channel or on social media like the rest of us? These little things are going to matter more and more as we re-enter an alt-truth era bolstered by AI, when we will have to interrogate every single fact.