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A post on The Daily Cartoonist website.
Ties in rather nicely with my belief as to what is the worst problem this not-so-great nation faces right now.
The people who most need to see certain things are, of course, the ones least likely to actually see those things. And if, by some rare chance, they do see those things, they've been conditioned (in the Pavlovian sense)/trained/brainwashed/hoodwinked into rejecting those things out of hand as "fAkE nEwS" and as "LIEbrul propaganda." If those things are things that make the God Emperor/Dear Leader look bad, then those things are simply "not true," reality be damned. And then, if and when there are, for them, actual negative consequences to their ignorance, consequences that might well open their eyes to the things that they've been dismissing as "FaKe NeWs" the whole time, they then just get mad at the ones who have been telling them these things all along, complaining about why didn't we make a greater effort to tell them.
Also, yes, the Ella Baron stuff showcased at the end, along with links to more, is exceptional.
Ties in rather nicely with my belief as to what is the worst problem this not-so-great nation faces right now.
The people who most need to see certain things are, of course, the ones least likely to actually see those things. And if, by some rare chance, they do see those things, they've been conditioned (in the Pavlovian sense)/trained/brainwashed/hoodwinked into rejecting those things out of hand as "fAkE nEwS" and as "LIEbrul propaganda." If those things are things that make the God Emperor/Dear Leader look bad, then those things are simply "not true," reality be damned. And then, if and when there are, for them, actual negative consequences to their ignorance, consequences that might well open their eyes to the things that they've been dismissing as "FaKe NeWs" the whole time, they then just get mad at the ones who have been telling them these things all along, complaining about why didn't we make a greater effort to tell them.
Also, yes, the Ella Baron stuff showcased at the end, along with links to more, is exceptional.
