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Sarah Hoyt is on fire these days. First
this and now
this:
Keeping Grandma Atop The Cliff
It is something everyone knows that anyone who wants to shrink government is aiming to push grandmas off cliffs and let the poor starve in the dark.
Just because �everybody knows it� doesn�t mean it�s so. Some time ago � oh, seventy years or so � international communism made it a goal to capture all the gatekeeper positions for mass media and entertainment. (No, I�m not saying everyone in that position is a communist. Most of them aren�t even conscious fellow-travelers. They�ve just bought the �every good/smart/well educated person thinks this, and they�d rather die than think.)
That�s actually what makes it worse. If these people had been conscious communists, they would have had to re-examine their beliefs when the horror-show that the Soviet Union had hidden came out when it collapsed. But because they�re simply going on �what the good people believe� without examining it or figuring out where it leads, they have continued, pretty much on course, repeating the lies that were once in service of a now defunct evil empire. It�s a zombie thing.
So the �big lies� that get repeated over and over by the media, until everyone knows them often are gross distortions of reality. More often, they have absolutely nothing to do with reality and are made with reference only to the Marxian theory of the world. (Sort of like the maps medieval cartographers made with reference only to other, previous maps � often someone�s guess at reality � had absolutely nothing to do with where land masses were or even what the shape of the Earth was.)
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Posted by DaveH at February 18, 2013 9:36 PM