World After Mid-Night Vision Goggles

I'm working on a new pentascope* on 'How to Glimpse Reality'.

It will help us reduce divisiveness, hear each other better and creatively collaborate in life outside the workplace. I'm inspired by the work of Kathryn Schulz

Can you tell me if I should push this or just let things be..?

. * a combination of PETs (Possibility Exploration Tools), Tips & 'How To's'

STORY:

For billions of years people thought the Sun went round the Earth.

Why?

No. Not because they were stupid but because it looks that way.

We know different. We know the Earth goes round the Sun.

Why? Because it looks that way.

But the real reason that we have night and day is because the Earth is rotating.

That also looks the same way.

Three explanations.

All fit the observation by eye from the ground - and if you go through traditional myths there are many more. My favourite is the one where the Sun and Moon are painted on the inside of a bowl that is painted half blue and half black and is turned by a giant hand!

So how can you know what is not true?

The advent of our new world where the pace of change outstrips the pace of learning has left us with a challenge - we either have to be curious and learn for ourselves or become wholly reliant and dependant on 'trusted sources' who navigate the complexity & volume of data and present us with a simple understanding.

But what if they don't know and get it wrong?

What if they are malign and provide us with misinformation? After all most 'trusted' sources will be influenced in some way, commercial, government pressure, licencing or trying to do 'the right thing'. We would make our rational decisions and build strategies that were condemned before beginning.

For me my active journey to pay attention and take personal ownership to 'glimpse the future' for myself began when 'trusted sources' told me that there was no chance of #Brexit and that Hilary Clinton had a 91% change of winning the White House.

Over the past six years listening and participating in hundreds of conversations about the state of the world, I've discovered that few people have studied #criticalthinking. Would you agree? (You can even if you are referring to yourself).

Often, they confuse deeply held opinions about the way things clearly look to them, with reality.

Worse they rely on their emotions for assessing the truth and decision making. Unfortunately with the massive advances in persuasion and influence science and the effective application of #AI to the big data from social media, the one thing you can no longer rely on is your gut instinct. It is easy to manipulate through digital & media.

Why would the weatherman lie to me?

Even more terrifying for them they are forced to rely on 'trusted sources' who are consistently wrong as I illustrated previously. And even when proven wrong the 'trusted' sources rarely ever confess and scoff down humble pie.

This is a dangerous state of affairs for critical thinking. Emotions are high and powerfully owned. The trusted sources are best friends you dare not impugn so if I was to suggest that what the weatherman was saying was incorrect the forceful and angry response would be assume you had bad intentions or were insane and to demand, "Why would the weatherman lie to me?" instead of just looking out of the window.

What I plan to provide is a pair of 'Night-vision goggles or scope for seeing reality in our World After Midnight.

Here we go with my first draft.

Is it helpful?