Wow! Thanks for the engaging reply! This is a series I'm building from two courses on "Critical Thinking" I teach at university. I think when some people hear "Critical Thinking" they assume it's all about tearing down arguments, but one thing I like best about Dewey is that he also made a place for "constructive criticism." So, the overarching goal of this series is basically a "constructive critical thinking."

That said, I completely agree with you about both the pervasiveness of fakery and the use of mindfulness in everyday life. Though, I might take your statement about needing time to "digest" the internet even further... since our species didn't evolve to meet MOST of the trappings of modern life, and the internet is the one place where these shortcomings (cognitive biases, etc.) are most apparent.

What's strange to me is how we're learning to design our built environments around our PHYSICAL limitations (e.g. we build stairs, guardrails, backup cameras, etc.) but when it comes to our cognitive limitations, we do very little to design around them.

Had Dewey lived to see the internet, he might've said we can't wait for our species to "accommodate" the virtual world by evolving to fit into it (as you so elegantly stated, to "digest" it). Rather, we need to "adapt" the virtual world to suit us and our cognitive limitations. That sort of change can be achieved more quickly... but until it is, we'll need to continue practicing a kind of constructive, critical thinking.