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Barack Obama pinpointed a central conflict in American politics back in 2004 while talking with a group of Google executives, “Many people – they’re just misinformed,” he said. “They just don’t have enough information, or they’re not professionals at sorting out all the information that’s out there, and so our political process gets skewed.”
Information overload is a bad problem, but the future U.S. president’s seemingly anodyne solution was even worse. “If you give them good information, their instincts are good and they will make good decisions. And the president has the bully pulpit to give them good information.”
Obama’s offer of guidance through the thickets of information recalls Ronald Reagan’s quip, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
The sheer number of facts has always outstripped the mind’s ability to sift and sort them. Progress is real – we know far more than we used to – but there is also far more to know, so we live in more comfort and the same general state of confusion.
In perhaps humanity’s greatest achievement, our ancient ancestors created narratives to try to make sense of it all. They picked out the facts that really mattered, the good information, and bundled them into stories. This feat provided us with the one thing we craved even more than love – certainty – as storytellers sold themselves as truth-tellers.
Problem is, everybody has a story – history is largely the record of the battle between his story and ours.
Politics and culture arose to settle these differences. Here’s what we........