The marketplace of good and bad ideas

On why the free exchange of ideas is a complex breeding ground for truth, appealing falsehoods, and self-serving rationalisations.

“Societally corrosive beliefs can persist when they are intuitively appealing or they serve some believers’ agendas” - Manvir Singh

I. The Marketplace of Ideas

According to some people, the truth will ultimately emerge from free and open debate within the “marketplace of ideas”. This is too optimistic. However, it contains an important grain of truth: whe…