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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Call it Bittersweet Seeds or Troof Bong

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What do you think of "Critical Pre-Conspiracy Theory Primer" or "Critical Pre-Conspiracy Theory 101: Dire Warnings Of Existential Threats To Humanity" for this book of irrefutable terms and concepts that all come before diving in any endlessly debatable rabbit holes? (Or these terms and concepts can be picked up along the way.)

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If kids are part of the target audience, this is probably too wordy and too biased towards conspiracy theorists. It should be more neutral and simple. "Critical thinking in the disinformation age".

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's perfect! It avoids "conspiracy" and is much more open-ended to be whatever the content evolves into.

Or maybe?: " Critical Thinking To Navigate The Age Of Big Lies "

Folks here are keen. I'm getting way more excited too.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Tossing and turning unable to sleep, I'm playing it over and wonder if there's still room for improvement. I was close to listing all this before, but not only wanted to not burden you with a wall of text, but also didn't want to diminish the huge leap forward of this new direction you provide. Yet, here I am now.

First I thought shorter:
Critical Thinking In The Disinfo Age

Then I thought simpler, and that they're always lying:
Critical Thinking In The Age Of Big Lies

Then I thought it needs more urgency, caution, and danger:
Critical Thinking To Survive The Age Of Big Lies

Then I thought that this isn't a survival guide and there's no guarantees anyone will survive:
Critical Thinking To Survive The Age Of Big Lies

So that's when I landed on:
Critical Thinking To Navigate The Age Of Big Lies

I don't think it's scary enough. I also have a lot of words I could add, but want to keep it short. This is much trickier that you'd think, akin to trying to write a good screenplay rather than a novel.

I was punning off the insane "critical race/gender/clownworld theories" and I hadn't even considered "critical thinking", but really that's really what I'm going for, to front-load folks before they get to conspiracies. Nailing it down like that is really good to help steer the content development when trying to explain what it is and is not. It also provides the thematic context and overarching perspective (aka a voice) from which some of the terminology will be presented.

What do you think of:
Critical Thinking To Help Us Survive This Age Of Big Dangerous Lies

I'm also wondering if I should do two versions. One that does not attack anything specifically (ie. vaccines, lockdowns, authorities, 9/11, conspiracies, etc.), and another one that is as merciless and hard hitting as I can rationally, logically, ethically get, perhaps under another title. Ideally the images would be mostly the same, but the accompanying explanatory paragraph may be different.

Also, I just realized. Duh.
We'll need a sixth section:
Alternatives & Solutions.