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This feels like a richer exploration of "Firehosing" (gurwinder.substack.com/…), but with a completely different outcome. In that brief explanation, bombardment of a population with disinformation results in apathy or withdrawal, whereas here, you're suggesting it might work a benefit of (at least the potential for) better engagement. In…
This feels like a richer exploration of "Firehosing" (https://gurwinder.substack.com/i/109084196/firehosing), but with a completely different outcome. In that brief explanation, bombardment of a population with disinformation results in apathy or withdrawal, whereas here, you're suggesting it might work a benefit of (at least the potential for) better engagement. In your assessment, does the vaccine metaphor continue to hold (i.e., there's a window of exposure that promotes health rather than degrades it)? Is that even possible in today's world? (I feel like it's already exceedingly difficult to find truth among an already vast sea of agenda-driven and manipulative narratives.)
I think firehosing confuses and demoralizes a population in the short term. But humans are infinitely adaptable, and once we're used to living in this cacophony we'll adapt to it and become less gullible for it.