Seeing through the mist.

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Epistemic duty is a term used by Philosophers to describe the responsibility we have to ensure that our actions and beliefs are examined to our own scrutiny and grounded in truth. An academic term for something we would hope would be routine, but clearly isn't. One look at the morning papers and social media streams shows why.

One of our less endearing qualities as humans is that we manufacture weakness in others to further our own ends. It is true of all areas of activity, and often encoded in marketing - creating wants where no need really exists, and in politics, creating fears where no threat really exists. We are all capable of seeing through the mist. It takes effort, and often courage to go against the grain of the mob and often the conventions of the workplace. Deceit is, after all, highly profitable for a few.

The pandemic has catalysed an accelerated reorientation of the workplace. It was happening anyway, as the industrial era fades, a…