Tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. From Jeffrey Tucker at dailyreckoning.com:
You may have heard of the “Overton window.”
The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it taps into a certain sense that we all know is there.
There are things you can say and things you cannot say, not because there are speech controls (though there are) but because holding certain views makes you anathema and dismissable. This leads to less influence and effectiveness.
The Overton window is a way of mapping sayable opinions.
The goal of advocacy is to stay within the window while moving it just ever so much. For example, if you’re writing about monetary policy, you should say that the Fed should not immediately reduce rates for fear of igniting inflation.
You can really think that the Fed should be abolished but saying that is inconsistent with the demands of polite society. That’s only one example of a million.
To notice and comply with the Overton window is not the same as merely favoring incremental change over dramatic reform. There is not and should never be an issue with marginal change.
That’s not what’s at stake.
Z had one about who says we must do this or that?
Is it society, God, the state, Karen Ratched?
Always have loved pushing boundaries and normies will fight tooth and nail for their enslavement.
It’s worse than NPC, they aren’t even alive.
Only the unreasonable change the world for the better and going along with the hive leads right over the cliff.
I used to think that small adjustments could lead people to realize the direction they were going was mistaken and then it would lead to slightly larger and larger changes until the move to free agency would seemingly suddenly become irresistible. What really happens when you argue for small changes in a corrupt system is that people don’t want to change the system, they think it just needs some adjusting, the system itself is fine. And so they continue on.
The political leaders don’t fear backlash. Once elected they are rarely unelected, even if there is an outcry from the public. They just wait for it to be forgotten and then move on as before.
After fighting this destruction for 55 years I have come to realize the only way to change a corrupt system is to abandon it. When it has the power to monitor individuals every moment and every decision the ability to resist it will become almost nil.
I wonder what George Carlin would have thought of the Overton Window.