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“If the news is fake, imagine history.” This pithy tweet reverses Orwell, because he who is acknowledged to be faking the present can no longer distort the past. That is, once enough people see that the establishment has been lying about today’s events, they naturally begin to think the establishment might have been lying about yesterday’s news as well.
The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan
As noted in Chapter 5, black and other minority students with the qualifications for success have been artificially turned into failures by being mismatched with academic institutions they do not qualify for under the standards applied to other students.
Intellectuals and Race
Thomas Sowell
One of the most common benedictions of the anointed is the use of the word “science” to describe notions which are consonant with their vision, but which have neither the certainty nor the intellectual rigor of science.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
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