Loading ...SECOND GUESS ?
Throughout this COVID sham over the past two and a half years, it can sometimes be difficult not to second guess yourself. Because when you try to describe what’s going on to someone who is not in the know, you can often appear ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. They’ll respond:
• “Really? I don’t know about that… Why would the government ever do that?”
• “I looked at your information — then I Googled it. Turns out ivermectin is not effective.”
• “If that were true, how come I haven’t seen it on the news?”
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Fully’s comment…no one at this tent ever second guessed I am sure
From The Vigilant Fox ( another good Substack )
“Why would the government ever do that?” Because it is in their own interests to do that.
“how come I haven’t seen it on the news?” Because the government controls the news….and google.
Plato’s Cave is full.
I occasionally listing to NPR (overhear my spouse listening actually) – I’ve noticed that not long after an argument is made by conservatives about a commonly observed phenomenon or event (when the question makes too much sense NOT to respond to), NPR talking heads almost immediately have their own Q&A mind fuck with some professor or someone that their listeners consider smarter than themselves. They take the argument a conservative might pose and the ‘expert’ soundly debunks it.
I quit asking my wife basic common sense questions because it’s like talking to her news feed – NPR/TWIT/BOOG/Android/CNN/MSM whatever. It’s to the point now that if I want to know what those channels are saying – I just drop a brief comment on news of the day and sure enough my wife has the MSM spin on the tip of her tongue OR in the event of the current world financial crisis and MASS demonstrations and unrest world wide – CRICKETS, must not be news on her planet!!
Sir YYZ,
Thank you for writing about NPR.
I “grew up” … LOL … listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh (RIP), Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin … while commuting 2 and a half hours a day. There were many other greats.
But while I was getting “educated in my late 30s”, more worryingly, my kids were being advocated and preached about NPR at school.
And once Trump got it elected, all this miseducation and disinformation to the vulnerable minds, went into hyperdrive
Where are the “teachers” and the “professors”?
Sadly, the ones now going to college, and newly joining the workforce, will find out about “liberalism” and “acceptance” and “environmentalism” and “global warming” and diversity” how it really “thrives” around them, or not. (Hyper)inflation will reset the priorities of the young minds, slowly.
GL
” Trump got elected” … not “Trump got it elected”
Thanks GL, I know many many ‘otherwise smart’ self-proclaimed non-liberals including many regular church-going family members who regularly listen to NPR. They have no idea what the world really looks like outside what is portrayed.
To be honest I listened to NPR for about 10 years out of college until after a couple election cycles I could see through the one-sided ‘news’ cycle and then it started clicking.