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In a world gone mad, elites keep peddling untruths
New York Post ^ | April 28, 2022 | Douglas Murray

Posted on 04/29/2022 6:52:12 AM PDT by billorites

Why does the world seem so mad right now? There are two reasons. The first is the injection of implausible claims into our society. The second is the speed and volume at which they come: mainly thanks to social media.

The reason why everybody is so excited about Twitter at the moment, and Elon Musk buying it, is that Twitter has helped fry the brains of our society. It doesn’t matter what subject you look at, Twitter will have deranged people more than they needed to be deranged by telling them things that are untrue at the highest possible pitch and speed.

It begins with the most basic building blocks of our world.

What is the first thing everybody knows about? I’d say it is probably whether they are a boy or a girl. What is the first thing everybody asks of new parents? “A boy or a girl?” But then we entered into the age of insanity.

Weirdo academics who would once have been confined to their studies at Berkeley (if not some other institution) decided boys and girls didn’t exist. They claimed that sex was in fact a “social construct” or a matter of “performance.” Before the age of social media that claim wouldn’t have leaked out of the confines of an asylum. But in the age of Twitter it got pumped out everywhere.

People on such platforms started to refer to people’s “gender assigned at birth” as though the doctors and nurses in the nation’s delivery rooms do not just observe the baby and immediately congratulate the parents on their new child. No, these people pretended that the doctors and nurses of America’s maternity wards just randomly made a claim about what sex the child was. “I feel like saying this one’s a girl,”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; musk; truthsocial; twitter
I'm looking forward to reading Murray's new book.
1 posted on 04/29/2022 6:52:12 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

Great interview with Murray on Malice’s “Your Welcome” podcast.


2 posted on 04/29/2022 7:00:03 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: billorites

“In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
― George Orwell, 1984


3 posted on 04/29/2022 7:02:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: billorites

Unless we start calling the LIES, what they are, we’ll never find our way to TRUTH!.


4 posted on 04/29/2022 7:03:14 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: billorites

Is that the same as mis/dis/mal-information subject to the new “dhs” department of speech control? Or is it okee dokee because it’s “elites” doing it. 😕


5 posted on 04/29/2022 7:10:28 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: billorites

All Communist dictators survive on lies!


6 posted on 04/29/2022 7:13:07 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Red Badger

“― George Orwell, 1984”

Good gosh, Orwell was a prophet. I remember seeing “1984” in school and thinking: wow that’s silly, that can’t happen.

Now I’m living it.


7 posted on 04/29/2022 7:14:11 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: billorites
The reason why everybody is so excited about Twitter at the moment, and Elon Musk buying it, is that Twitter has helped fry the brains of our society.

As Rush used to say, Twitter is a sewer, with an overwhelming percentage of users simply bots.

8 posted on 04/29/2022 7:20:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: billorites

Pretty much everything is downstream of the elites, and our elites are rotten.


9 posted on 04/29/2022 7:24:54 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: rktman

Well, once we get a MAGA president back in office, if they replace the leadership at DHS, then the “thought police” will work for us. The Dems do not seem worried about that though, so I think they are quite certain we’ll never get another MAGA president.


10 posted on 04/29/2022 7:26:56 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: brownsfan

Well, “1984” wasn’t even speculative fiction when it was written, besides a few pieces of somewhat futuristic technology like the telescreens. Orwell based everything in it on what had already happened in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.


11 posted on 04/29/2022 7:28:35 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Weird huh? I wonder how they know that.


12 posted on 04/29/2022 7:30:01 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: billorites

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13 posted on 04/29/2022 7:36:12 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: billorites

Servants of Satan.


14 posted on 04/29/2022 7:39:30 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: brownsfan

The Dems use it as an Instruction Manual...................


15 posted on 04/29/2022 7:58:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: billorites
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience...
—Ephesians 2:1–2 (NKJV)


What does it mean that Satan is prince of the power of the air?

16 posted on 04/29/2022 11:32:02 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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