America is experiencing a form of massive Gell-Mann Amnesia
Wikipedia:
"The phenomenon of people trusting newspapers for topics which they are not knowledgeable about, despite recognizing them to be extremely inaccurate on certain topics which they are knowledgeable about."
Democrats just witnessed the entire left-leaning media hide Biden's cognitive decline and act surprised when they got caught via the debate debacle.
Now Democrat know -- with complete certainty -- than the media they trusted can gaslight them on even the most obviously false stories.
Democrats also experienced the total collapse of "expert" credibility during the pandemic.
And yet. . .
Tomorrow they will read a story about 98% of scientists saying climate change is our biggest danger, and they will regard that as pure truth.
They will also believe Joy Reid who says Trump is Hitler.
That's Gell-Mann amnesia. It has a name. You can watch play out it in real time.
You know who came up with the term "Gell-Mann Amnesia"?
Michael Crichton—the dude who wrote Jurassic Park, ER, Westworld.
I guess he thought the "Crichton effect" wouldn't catch on the same way if people were like: you mean like the Jurassic Park guy?!
Fascinating. Putting a name to concepts gives them persuasive power.
[This is how Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park), who coined the term, described it in a speech in 2002:
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann [he introduced the concept of quarks as the fundamental building blocks of the strongly interacting particles], and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Papers are full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”]
Imagine being a journalist right now that’s covering for Joe Biden.
How do you even call yourself a journalist?
How could anyone take you seriously?
How could you sell out your country just to keep a job?
I don’t understand the logic that would make somebody do this.
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