Valuing Honesty, Learning

#3 VALUING HONESTY, LEARNING

I like sharing “Today I learned…” and later using my new knowledge in teaching others. I’m honest, value facts, and can distinguish between the role of genes and memes in human evolution. I want to advance cultural evolution and shape healthy worldviews by promoting memes I value, and encourage learning from experience of Reality. Feedback this provides can guide humanity adapting to its global environment, promote worldviews associated with better predictions, and encourage honesty. I value exposing lies / deceit, countering false information, and teaching critical thinking skills to others so they can do this.

More Information About This Worldview Theme--note this table is under construction, last update: May 2025)
a spade WV Theme...		...individual <---> nature
this theme is paired with: #4 Spreading Disinformation / Tactical Deception to make Choice #43 in the Choices We Make cards
this theme as presented in older version of theme structure: is this theme new to version 4?--YES
click to look at the Project Worldview Cultural Literacy Encyclopedia Related Words, Beliefs, Background articles for the above choice
Project Worldview authored discussion, Worldview Watch related issues, songs, etc.
Worldview Watch issue #78 / posted 11/3/2024 Information Wars—A Report from the Local Front
Worldview Watch issue #66 posted 1/18/2021 Pulling the Plug on Those Spreading Big Lies
Worldview Watch issue #64 posted 7/22/2020 The Ideology of Journalism

Wikipedia articles related to this theme:
Honesty	cultural evolution		Learning
Meme	Fact Checking		Misinformation
Delusion	Gene		Teacher
imitation	Critical Thinking		Universal Darwinism
worldview internal inconsistency related: Strongly valuing this theme and any of the themes in the list below is a contradiction:
#2A The True Believer	#2B I Know What's Best For You	#15 The Group Think Imperative	#36A Cynicism
#36B Conspiracies	#101B Mind Narrowly Focused	#201B Positive Expectations

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #3: Valuing Honesty, Learning

“Impact—Countering Disinformation” (from Internews)

The Anti-Social Media Bill (from online encyclopedia)

Ethical Journalism: A Handbook of Values and Practices for the News and Opinion Departments (From The New York Times)

"Navigating the new normal: How nature keeps us grounded in a world turned upside down" by James Horrox

Facebook’s Fact Checkers Are Out. It’s Time For Scientists To Be Heard by Rhea Wessel (posted on Forbes Jan 12 2025)

We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away from Reality by Marianne Cooper & Maxim Voronov (post on Scientific American June 2024)

Skipping School: America’s Hidden Education Crisis by Alec MacGillis (ProPublica report January 8 2024)

"Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded" by Patrick Walters (on Scientific American website, posted August 4 2023)

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson (book review by Barbara Demick The Washington Post Mar 11 2022)

How to respond to disinformation while protecting free speech by R. K. Nielsen (from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, April 2021)

“Trump Isn't the Only One on Trial. The Conservative Media Is, Too.” By Giovanni Russonello (in The NewYork Times February 9, 2021)

“Combating Misinformation When A Loved One Is Caught In A Web Of Conspiracies” by Sarah McCammon (NPR Jan 30 2021 story)

Confronting Misinformation--How to protect society from fear, lies and division (Scientific American special issue November 2020)

How to Lose the Information War by Nina Jankowicz (book review by Jeese Damiani in Forbes July 23 2020)

“The growth, spread, and mutation of internet phenomena: A study of memes” by A. Lonnberg etal (May 2020 scholarly article)

"The Co-evolution of Honesty and Strategic Vigilance" By C. Heintz etal (Oct 2016 from Frontiers in Psychology)

Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay by by Amar Bhidé and Howard H. Stevenson (from Harvard Business Review September 1990)

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"As you shop in "The Reality Marketplace" avoid spending your "reality cash" too early, before you have seen everything. "
from Coming of Age in the Global Village, by Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.