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Another Lie: ‘Information Disorder’ and How to Resist, by Tessa Lena

If you don’t buy into current narratives, you’ve got information disorder. That you’re here at SLL is good—you have many kindred spirits—but it may get you thrown in a psychiatric ward somewhere. From Tessa Lena at theburningplatform.com:

information disorder

Story at-a-glance

  • The phrase “information disorder” frames independent thinking as a “national security issue” and a psychiatric diagnosis
  • According to an insane 2020 “study” out of Nepal, sufferers from information disorder syndrome “need psycho-social counseling and sometimes require strong regulations and enforcement to control such information disorder”
  • Astoundingly, another study from Australia from 2022 attributes vaccine injury to the harms of “misinformation,” alleging that it is misinformation-caused fear that causes injury
  • When there is so much gaslighting and bullying around, it can be hard to even think about healing; however, the trick is to be patient and to insist on removing pain even under pressure
  • Praying from our hearts, like unsophisticated children, can guide us when we feel like there is just too much to handle

This story is about two things. On the one hand, it’s about the abysmally shameless “information disorder” that the bullies invented to build back — I mean, bully — better. On the other hand, it is about healing while in the middle of being bullied and subjected to things that are abysmally unfair.

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Remarks on Right-wing Talk Radio, by Paul Craig Roberts

It’s hard to find people who can separate reality from their own politics. From Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org:

Over the course of my life as a university professor, government official, business consultant, president of a community water company and editor and journalist for national and international publications, I have learned that a majority of people cannot think outside the indoctrination they received that formed their biases.  If you provide them with a different view or explanation, instead of thinking about it, they just get angry. This is true also of academics. University professors resist their human capital being devalued and placed in need of renewal by new discoveries and explanations. No academic wants to have to redo all his lecture notes or see his own scholarly contributions bypassed by new explanations. As Niccolo Machiavelli truthfully said, “There is nothing more difficult, more perilous or more uncertain of success, than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things.”

Conservatives with right-wing biases usually write me off as left-wing, and leftists with left-wing biases write me off as conservative, especially as I had a high appointment in the Reagan administration.  The only way to write successfully for these people is to tell them what they want to hear.  Then they love you instead of hate you.

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