Spotting Bullshit: Freedom of Choice | Joris Luyendijk

Joris Luyendijk needs little introduction. He is a preeminent journalist and writer who last visited Delft in 2015 to talk about the financial crisis of 2008. Given the current corona crisis, what better time to invite him back?
Joris excels in big picture critiques of Western culture. For this lecture, he will take aim at what he calls “the ideology of the freedom of choice.” An ideology that sits right at the core of our cultural values, but that also lets us make bad, bad decisions: from freely creating and consuming fake news, to choosing unfit leaders, to enabling global crises like the corona pandemic and climate change.
What does our freedom of choice really mean? And how does it make things worse? Come see Joris lay down his controversial argument and put us all to shame.
SG Presents: The Spotting Bullshit Series
Bullshit - roughly, the deliberate or accidental spreading of untruths - is all around us. It’s a thing of all ages, but it’s very possible that we are living in THE age of bullshit. Peak bullshit, as it were. Sometimes it is easy to spot, but our brains can be tricked!
In this series of seven interactive lectures, Studium Generale will tackle the issue head on and offer you some tools to spot when we are being manipulated through mental trickery. Join these lectures and inoculate yourself against fake news, logical fallacies and other manipulations, and become a beacon of independent, rational and critical thought!

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Good stuff Joris.

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WhenFamke Louis was at Jinek talkshow there was a petition of 1200 doctors that was completely ignored and they only invited the wappies to make fun of. And its a disgrace they didnt have the guts to talk with the docters, who said corona beds shouldnt go at the expense of cancer operations and others dying at the waitinglists. So there was a big cryout of all the hospital docters and it will go down as the blackest day in mainstream media. Those docters you will see at weltzmertz and blckbx. professors of virology completely blocked now patiently appeal at what first were wappie media but they patiently explained and exlained. So it was easier for them to educate wappies into deductive thinking than to persuade the mainstream to do their job. During this year the wappies grew into research journalists. And papers like the NRC deteriorated. Who is intellectual now? The difference between malign conspiracy and rest is narcissism. Narcissists do not take in feedback and do not look at others perspectives. And so now tables have turned. Mainstream that dont cover the feedback of people are fakenews. And the ones you think are conspiracy theorists some of them proessionally cover science with an opinion outside if WHO’s official story. And without seeing yourself in the world but placing yourself above it like a god or considering yourself “elite” you are a wappy. Its narcissism

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Are there no conspiracies at all? Only theories about? 😅🤣😂😅🤣😂