12-09-2024, 03:07 PM
(12-09-2024, 02:50 PM)sahgwa Wrote: My brain, despite it's training and it's experience with NewSpeak, human nature, and idiocy, is still in a bit of denial/shock over how the Mainstream Narrative/paradigm shifted so harshly and stupidly, between roughly 2010 and roughly 2020.
We used to have at least the Façade of an investigative journalism...
I suppose I suffer from some form of bias... because I see the distinct decline myself...
It's almost as if at some point, a given date, the concept of rhetoric as a tool to 'understand' was utterly erased from the minds of citizens... but that's just crazy, right?
I have children, those children are not immune from the 'consensus' conditioning that exploits this lack of 'a considered and taught' way to interpret the difference between what you are told, versus what you observe and know. It's frightening that the older generation of "journalists" simply vanished before inspiring the next generation.
