How to Make Sense of Our World Gone Mad?

Five life-saving tips to make the right choices on our information battlefield

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Sensemaking these days has become walking in a minefield of misinformation wearing a tight strap of self-censorship with a gun of wokism pointed at the brains you haven’t given up yet.

It seems impossible to make sense of the world.

Maybe you’ve given up altogether. Like three years ago in a time called Covid?

Humanity is playing dangerous zero-sum games with a few winners and many losers in a darkening landscape of culture wars, game-A rivalrous dynamics, limbic AI-hijacks and massive disinformation, propaganda and psychological warfare — Daniel Schmachtenberger, Co-Founder at the Neurohacker Collective

This process can be expressed in this equation:

Poisoned information ecology X exponential technological growth based on poor and incomplete choice-making = self-destruction

Or, as Daniel puts it eloquently, Humanity is running into a forest increasingly blind and increasingly fast.

Since the 70ies, a conscious war on sense-making has been ignited. This has developed to today, where we’re in a linguistic war on our screens. For example, the psychological conspiracy…