Rebecca Solnit's column in NYT on the gullibility of Americans explains what makes all this possible. We have a deep seated problem: how to teach our youth to tell fact from lies. Comparison to Nazi Germany is so clear. They provided " Volk radios" to every German home, which received only their propaganda, which the people believed. Then Hitler was justified in everything he did. NPR had a story today on how teachers are talking to students about January 6. Go to primary sources!!!!! Watch "newsreels", see what happened with your own eyes, not through the lenses of someone else telling you.
That was a good article by Solnit on the gullible. I'm worried that the power of "motivated reasoning" is greater even than primary sources or video evidence. Millions watched the Jan. 6 riot live but now prefer to think it was a staged event by their enemies. It's the moon landing of politics--it happened right in front of us, but some deny it was real because that would be damaging to their beliefs. We choose belief over fact.
Agreed, especially in this age of PhotoShopping and video editing. But I still have hope that " You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the the time, but not all of the people all of the time." (Quote from the 1800s, but not by A. Lincoln.)
Even in the most gruesome of horror flicks, there is some pacing, some breaks. I thought the senatorial race in Georgia was
going to let us take a breath. Even celebrate and relax for a minute. But, no. The horror show that’s Trump (and Hawley and Cruz) and the violence at the capitol just kept coming and coming. And now we are held captive in the theatre; forced to watch two more weeks of horror?
Rebecca Solnit's column in NYT on the gullibility of Americans explains what makes all this possible. We have a deep seated problem: how to teach our youth to tell fact from lies. Comparison to Nazi Germany is so clear. They provided " Volk radios" to every German home, which received only their propaganda, which the people believed. Then Hitler was justified in everything he did. NPR had a story today on how teachers are talking to students about January 6. Go to primary sources!!!!! Watch "newsreels", see what happened with your own eyes, not through the lenses of someone else telling you.
That was a good article by Solnit on the gullible. I'm worried that the power of "motivated reasoning" is greater even than primary sources or video evidence. Millions watched the Jan. 6 riot live but now prefer to think it was a staged event by their enemies. It's the moon landing of politics--it happened right in front of us, but some deny it was real because that would be damaging to their beliefs. We choose belief over fact.
Agreed, especially in this age of PhotoShopping and video editing. But I still have hope that " You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the the time, but not all of the people all of the time." (Quote from the 1800s, but not by A. Lincoln.)
Even in the most gruesome of horror flicks, there is some pacing, some breaks. I thought the senatorial race in Georgia was
going to let us take a breath. Even celebrate and relax for a minute. But, no. The horror show that’s Trump (and Hawley and Cruz) and the violence at the capitol just kept coming and coming. And now we are held captive in the theatre; forced to watch two more weeks of horror?