Friday, October 1, 2021

An Endless Cavalcade of Barking Idiots and Fabulists

I think I may understand why people are flocking to believe crazy outlandish bullshit bleated by Donald John, his trumpenfash handlers and far right* media. It's because people feel that accepting the truth about what is happening would just be too psychologically devastating. The truth is the following: The way this thing was set up - to reward aggressiveness, acquisitiveness and an atomized conception of the human self - has put the Earth, and us along with it, on a jolly little sleigh ride to Hell. It's not an easy thing to accept that everything you've believed about your life, your country, your culture and your values is coalescing to catalyze ecocide and human species suicide. So, if believing the truth is unthinkable, what remains? Utter fantasy and lunacy. FOX, OAN, Newsmax, Dan Bongino, Marjorie Taylor Greene. An endless cavalcade of barking idiots and fabulists.

I've found that facing these stark truths does not defeat one, however. On the contrary, facing such truths can feel liberating, exhilarating. (*The lies and distortions present on corporate-Democrat media like the NYT, CNN and MSNBC are of a different order and degree and have already been exposed expertly, starting with Noam Chomsky and Edward J. Herman's "Manufacturing Consent," 1988).








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