Recent revelations over Christmas tell us that a dismaying number of politicians took vacation jaunts to sunny places, at the same time as telling the rest of us to stay home. It seems that these people play by a different set of rules. By a strange coincidence, the perpetrators seem to be of one…
Month: January 2021
Politics
The Two Great Delusions of the Democrats
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How many times in the past months have we heard the complaint that the supporters of the Right are delusional? In my last political post I dealt with the lie that the Republican leaders care at all about their grassroots supporters besides scamming their votes out of them. Trump’s little fibs were nothing compared to…
Social Commentary
Syncophantic Social Media Part 2: How to Counter Propaganda
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As I discussed in last week’s post, our problem is that that social media is becoming more and more sophisticated in its ability to attract our attention and change our way of thinking. A not-so-ridiculous example: “Lizard People” are a True Phenomenon According to Wikipedia, the Lizard People are “shape-shifting reptilian aliens who control Earth by…
Social Commentary
The Danger of Sycophantic Social Media
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There’s a new documentary on Netflix that you should watch if you’re interested in the effect of social media on humanity. It seems that a bunch of highest-level movers and shakers at businesses like Google, Amazon, and Facebook started realizing the monster they had created. They have all left their former employers and are doing…
Politics
The Biggest Lie of All
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The hypocrisy of it all amazes me. The leading lights of a powerful country can’t really be that naïve. How many times have we heard these protests? “Unpatriotic, illegal, should be arrested.” “The siege of the capitol” “rioting in the streets” “disregarding government and public property.” Calls for action against people violating the curfew.…
Social Commentary
And You Thought 2020 Was Bad…
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First the Good News British Columbia has flattened the curve on the Second Wave. Following a peak of 700+ new cases per day in the wake of the Thanksgiving Social Stupidity, by clamping down with fairly severe restrictions we have managed to keep our society and our economy limping along, and are now down into…