A guide to the post-truth world
- How are we being manipulated and not knowing it?
- What are hoaxes?
- Does the media show the world as it really is?
- Why do politicians lie to us?
- What is media literacy?
- Why is critical thinking needed?
- And how does the brain play with us?
These are just some of the current questions that you will find answers to in this book. Its author is the co-founder of the website manipulatori.cz, which seeks to promote independent and critical thinking and expose media lies.
In the first part of the book you will discover the laws of our behaviour and decision-making. You will discover why our desires so often shape the future, understand how our own irrationality affects us, why we succumb to group stupidity and how easily we make thinking mistakes.
The second part of the book deals with the hot present. It focuses on commonly used argumentative fouls and on exposing manipulative and propagandistic practices in politics and the media. You will learn about the behind the scenes of the media industry and news production as well as the techniques of how the media can manipulate us. Last but not least, you will understand how to detect fake news, know truth from lies and not succumb to conspiracy thinking.
