Doxa

Doxa is the second piece of the “Propositum” series.

Humanity's gullibility is absurd. Information is rarely questioned, especially if the statement is at least barely cognitively fluent.

Back in 2000, a series of chain emails reported that imported bananas were infecting people with “necrotizing fasciitis”, which is an extremely rare disease. The threat was pure nonsense, and yet by the end of the month it was popular enough for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a statement decrying the rumour. Interestingly enough, the statement only poured fuel into the flames.

The situation is absurd. It takes so little evidence, and so little sense to convince us that something is true.