These guys are so orwellian in their speech. “Capitalism is environmentally unfriendly” “Conservatives have moved radically to the right.”
Both are not only false, but are the exact opposite of the truth. The latter is easy to prove: Which side, right or left, concurs with popular opinion in 1960 regarding same sex marriage?
It’s laughable.
It’s laughable on one hand and [searching for word] stunning on another.
Truth, even partial truth; even ever-so-slightly researched truth-—is much harder to “know” than a bumper sticker slogan. And this gets me, I must confess.
I recently got in touch w/a close friend of 45+ years (and if I told you we met in Berkeley in 1971, the Hilinsky era referred to in these recent HRC letters-—and undoubtedly walked or motorcycled by her then-Derby St address a thousand times, I wouldn’t be exaggerating one iota)
We lost touch & had not conversed for about 30 years.
So this guy is absolutely technical (much like me) and big into electronics and mechanics, largely centered on his sailboat obsession. But-—he was raised by fervent East Coast leftists and he thinks Communism is “kinda cool”.
Out of his mouth comes every, and I mean every leftist meme there is and some he has made up on his own. I can get him to conflate “Koch Bros”, “states’ rights”, “separate but equal” all into one sentence if we talk long enough.
So I can’t figure that out...beyond what I first said. In a world where we have the freedom to ponder our belly buttons using the highest levels of technology imaginable——there not only *is* no objective truth, there really isn’t the desire to know or seek it. Nor is there the value that knowing it, even imperfectly, might be better than sheer conformance with this mass mindlessness we have now. This, I probably don’t have to point out, is the classic formula for Pol Potism, for despotism per every historical example available.