John Sydenham. The most effective form of disinformation is the technique perfected by the BBC: no-platform news you dislike and publicise news that you favour. This technique of “half truths” is used by sophisticated purveyors of disinformation such as China and the Social Media companies.
Needs updating. The "Welsh" man who murdered the little girls in Stockport is a muslim with Al Qaeda sympathies (and something Starmer and Cooper would have been told about quite quickly)
I only recently came across your (under advertised) substack and greatly appreciate that your arguments are supported with sources and data. Whether by a sympathetic reader or not - some politicians may not welcome being confronted with the reality of what they have done - your articles deserve to be read.
In 1851 the philospher Arthur Schopenhaur (who was not exactly a barrel of laughs) noted that
"The majority of men...are not capable of thinking, but only believing, and ...are not accessible to reason, but only to authority"
which is the problem with politics. Most of the 47 million or so voters prefer to ignore politics but imbibe establishment narratives by osmosis nonetheless (and the role of radio in this is often overlooked as that part of the BBC and the like is not decligning as much as televison news). They believe as authority requires.
I've lost comment boxes on substack, no matter which browser I use (though the link to your like as worked onvioulsy) so if I disappear through failing to solve the problem please be assured that I shall be reading your posts.
Thank you for your kind comment. I was active in politics in my early twenties at university but so many people were apathetic I got very discouraged. Although cynicism was behind the apathy there was also an enormous amount of trust in the system.
People could believe that the Tories were run by a handful of the mega-rich but strangely seemed happy with that.
No-one could believe for one moment that the International Socialists had co-opted the Labour Party to their cause. I would regularly chat with the Trots and thoroughly enjoy their company (they were a bunch of charismatic psychopaths). The electorate are a bit like teenagers, you can warn them but they need to experience the danger for themselves.
Needs updating. The "Welsh" man who murdered the little girls in Stockport is a muslim with Al Qaeda sympathies (and something Starmer and Cooper would have been told about quite quickly)
I only recently came across your (under advertised) substack and greatly appreciate that your arguments are supported with sources and data. Whether by a sympathetic reader or not - some politicians may not welcome being confronted with the reality of what they have done - your articles deserve to be read.
In 1851 the philospher Arthur Schopenhaur (who was not exactly a barrel of laughs) noted that
"The majority of men...are not capable of thinking, but only believing, and ...are not accessible to reason, but only to authority"
which is the problem with politics. Most of the 47 million or so voters prefer to ignore politics but imbibe establishment narratives by osmosis nonetheless (and the role of radio in this is often overlooked as that part of the BBC and the like is not decligning as much as televison news). They believe as authority requires.
I've lost comment boxes on substack, no matter which browser I use (though the link to your like as worked onvioulsy) so if I disappear through failing to solve the problem please be assured that I shall be reading your posts.
Thank you for your kind comment. I was active in politics in my early twenties at university but so many people were apathetic I got very discouraged. Although cynicism was behind the apathy there was also an enormous amount of trust in the system.
People could believe that the Tories were run by a handful of the mega-rich but strangely seemed happy with that.
No-one could believe for one moment that the International Socialists had co-opted the Labour Party to their cause. I would regularly chat with the Trots and thoroughly enjoy their company (they were a bunch of charismatic psychopaths). The electorate are a bit like teenagers, you can warn them but they need to experience the danger for themselves.
And even then many rationalise it as something other than what it is.