12-25-2016, 07:13 PM
(11-22-2016, 01:55 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Actually, I fought the Cold War to protect freedom, including free speech. Free speech means nothing if it doesn't include speech we disagree with.
"Truthi-ness" has destroyed the authority of ideas, and the use of speech as a means for convincing. Free speech also means nothing if it is only a cesspool of misinformation and lies.
Picking the flecks of pepper from the fly shit is a tedious and thankless task.
We no longer have any consensus at all on what the facts are on any issue. Listen to Kelly Ann Conway on any given day. Trump is a first class bullshit artist, but this woman outdoes even him.
And we all sit around listening to bullshit flying around, wondering what IS the truth. Paralysis ensues. Between rushing back and forth between The Onion, Snopes.com, Facebook Fake News and the general plethora of misinformation, no one can tell for sure what the heck to do next, or even what to think.
[font=Arial Black]... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.[/font]
