Censors often end up believing their own bullshit, while the ordinary people often see through it. From Bret Swanson at brownstone.org:
Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.Friedrich Nietzsche
They fooled themselves. The censorship meant to keep regular people in the dark instead blinded the pseudo-elite censors and their friends.
The shock – both feigned and real – over Joe Biden’s long-obvious dementia cements our 2022 diagnosis of the ruling class’s dysinformation disorder. Yes, some knew and hid the truth, as the brilliant Timur Kuran explains. But many journalists and Democratic power brokers appear to have been truly clueless. Otherwise, they would have changed course long ago.
The refrain that Joe is “sharp as a tack” was just the latest in two decades’ worth of increasingly preposterous propaganda.
- Iraqi WMD
- Russian collusion
- 51 intel officers
- Everything Covid
- SARS2 emerged in a wet market
- Lockdown
- Mask your toddlers
- Jab the healthy
- Horse dewormer
- Ukraine is winning – escalate!
- The border’s secure
This propaganda is believed most deeply and fervently in Washington, D.C., New York, and Hollywood. Those who think they know the most turn out to know the least. So what? Lots of people are wrong lots of the time.
Well, it turns out self-delusion at scale is no trifling matter. With Covid, it produced the biggest set of policy debacles since the Great Depression and has now brought us closer to nuclear conflict than any time since October 1962.
Weren’t they HS age once, these censors?
Anything banned or not allowed is automatically going to get looked into at that age.
Curiosity may harm the cat but it may not hurt you.
You might even learn something new which is always good.
Breaking from Messer für Frau Müller:
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