October 4, 2004
From the desk of Jane Galt:Today's must-read
Fellow UChicago alum Zimran Ahmed is back from vacation with a fantastic post on cognitive error and the elections.
Posted by Jane Galt at October 4, 2004 11:42 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksAs the Prof. would say, "Indeed."
That is not to say I entirely agree with it, or the essays to which it linked. For example, the premise that seduction is necessarily dishonest is not necessarily true. It is virtually impossible to "plant a foreign idea" into an unwilling mind, as any hypnotist would tell you.
Moreover, the claim that the mainstream media are "often wrong, and generally biased, but they don't get so hysterical that they become unreadable by half the country" is less and less true with each passing day. Gallup has trust in traditional media at an all-time low. CBS doing a story about the draft scare that does not care to mention that it's based on an internet hoax is, imho, verging on hysteria (and based on the plummeting ratings for CBS News, I'm not the only one who thinks so).
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