One slightly thornier point: believing false things is actually a pretty powerful coordination mechanism.
Yeah, this is one place that things get awfully ‘complex systemsey’, in an exciting but also horrifying way. Some might argue, say, that the Enlightenment ultimately caused a bunch of discoordination and strife (ongoing) in Europe and beyond. Maybe!
But we may need (and be able) to equip people not to coordinate around the most damaging falsehoods (e.g. corrupt populist-demagogic or tech-fantasist) by noticing betrayals and inconsistencies there.
In general the targets of our busting ought to be less identity- and community-foundational and more like political and scientific fads and bubbles. This certainly informs the kind of interventions you should prefer.
Yeah, this is one place that things get awfully ‘complex systemsey’, in an exciting but also horrifying way. Some might argue, say, that the Enlightenment ultimately caused a bunch of discoordination and strife (ongoing) in Europe and beyond. Maybe!
But we may need (and be able) to equip people not to coordinate around the most damaging falsehoods (e.g. corrupt populist-demagogic or tech-fantasist) by noticing betrayals and inconsistencies there.
In general the targets of our busting ought to be less identity- and community-foundational and more like political and scientific fads and bubbles. This certainly informs the kind of interventions you should prefer.