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Concordis.io is in the process of re-branding itself to Shared Reality Solutions and can now be found here: https://sharedreality.solutions.
We wanted to make it more clear what we’re all about and what we are here to create. Here are some ideas about that.
First, our goal is to create a shared reality for everyone. We want to stabilize democracy around the best available evidence, even if — or because! — the entire existing media landscape appears to be working in exactly the opposite direction. …
Welcome to the Concordis blog!
We will discuss the ideals behind Concordis, and keep you up to date on project developments. Please check back here over time as we will update the blog frequently. For now, allow us to provide some background.
Who Are We, and What is Concordis About?
Concordis is managed by a team of people across the U.S. from a variety of backgrounds. You can find out more about our individual team members on the About page on our website. Why do we do what we do?
The world is currently in a state of information chaos…
Western-style democracies are experiencing a crisis of truth-telling. Those of us who would like to stay informed about the world around us find the news to be laden with judgments and slippery with slants; and, so the “truth” is often hard to find. We may wish to decide for ourselves what to make of it all, but ascertaining the facts of what happened increasingly requires considerable effort and the discerning eye of a detective. This situation has made it difficult to create consensus even about what our problems are, much less to agree on their causes and how we might…
Decades ago, media critic Marshall McLuhan wrote that “The Medium is the Massage,” and “The Medium is the Message.” He meant that the qualities of each medium of communication inevitably influence or limit the kind of messages which can be communicated through that medium. The defects of paragraph-based communication media have been exploited.
That exploitation has led to a hyper-competitive “truth”-telling environment in which Western-style democracies are under existential threat. We need a new medium of truth-telling which naturally creates descriptions of reality we can all feel good about believing. That medium will counter the defects currently being exploited, so…
The news model is failing us, and it’s failing us spectacularly. We need a new medium — a new process to determine the truth, based on accepted facts and simple logic — which can allow us all to find answers and agreement on some of the most important issues of the day, before its too late.
Let’s look at an example of how our current media environment allows lies to go unchallenged. How can our existing model be “played”? How can politicians and others use the “Four D’s of Disinformation” to spread propaganda instead of answering questions or admitting to…
