Lost in the Haze: The Sense-Making Crisis
- Martin Enlund
- 11/19/24
Imagine a world where the very foundations of knowledge are in question. Where experts disagree on the most basic facts, and the public is left to navigate a sea of conflicting information. Welcome to our reality, where the process of knowledge creation has become unhinged. We’re facing numerous major challenges, from pandemics to climate threats, migration flows, and rapid technological development, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). But beneath these surface-level issues lies a more profound problem: the mechanisms by which we produce, disseminate, and consume information have been severely disrupted, leading to a crisis of trust in the very foundations of knowledge itself.
Nothing new under the sun
- Martin Enlund
- 9/2/24
The ongoing debate surrounding freedom of expression may revolve more around determining who gets to control the dissemination of information rather than any claimed notion of safeguarding democracy. Similarities can be identified from 500 years ago, following the invention of the printing press.
Robbing the human race
- Martin Enlund
- 12/2/23
TL;DR: Contemporary regulations not only threaten internet giants with substantial fines if they fail in their censorship efforts, but also undermine truth itself according to one of history’s foremost proponents of liberalism. With so many eager censors at work, can our societies still be said to be liberal?
On linguistic issues
- Martin Enlund
- 8/5/23
Elon Musk asserted earlier this year that the media is “racist against white people.” This came after the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams, was accused of “spewing racism,” which resulted in his comic strip Dilbert being removed from the country’s newspapers. Musk was quickly labeled as a racist.
