As a policy to preserve your sanity, you can do a lot worse than just ignoring as lies whatever the establishment tells you. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
inverting the grifter gradient and turning lies back upon the liars
in the halcyon days of 2020, certain internet felines were heard to opine that “public health epidemiology is just the global warming scam on 100X fast forward.” and truly, it was.
it’s the same tricks, the same bad models, the same zero-move look ahead sensationalization of anything that happens. it’s the same endless pivots to “the new scary thing” when the last one fails to pan out. it’s the same manipulation of data, the same suppression of dissent and elimination of perspective, and the same interminable repetition of tall tale talking points to frighten, other, and enrage.
it’s all one big program to convince people that they “know” what “isn’t so” using the cognitive carpet bombing of embedding and repetition to take advantage of flaws in human reasoning and perception to substitute ubiquity for rigor and confidence tricks for consensus.
and once you realize that much of the business model of modern media has morphed into pay for play special interest shillery, an awful lot of things start to make sense.
but we will evolve around this.
this endless bag of tricks not only evaporates but inverts once you know what you’re looking at. you not only see the scam for what it is, but you also see the scammers for what they are.
Keep calm and Mad Max.
Be thankful for not being a drone dullard out to run with the pack right over the cliff edge or too invested in happy talk delusions to see the tyranny for the COV-LARP.
Normal is never coming back and the problem with the new normal is that it only gets worse.