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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
let's not forget......Home EC. All the guys I took Home Ec with in high school loved it. They learned to sew buttons on, hem their pants and they...
I watched a Documentary about a year ago which highlighted wealthy Israelis flying to China to get organs harvested from the Falun Gong. The...
Thanks JennB for your insight and humour, a firestorm of comments, with more to arrive, I suspect. Great Work!
I remember the acronym of a well appreciated commentator (some may remember him)...NFC...No further Comment. Rowan....RIP
What is important here to my mind is, the very foundation of the US constitution...as a test case for the west. First amendment right of the US...
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Among my Liberal friends, when anti-Trump jokes resolve to being little more than, " Trump! Am I Right?" I sometimes sigh from lack of amusement, as though dealing with foolish children, and patiently offer such unthinkable words:
"I don't actually hate the man. He lacks grace and he's made some dumb decisions, but he's nowhere near the monster people portray him as. I like the fact that he hasn't started any new wars. That counts pretty big in my book. I think you can take the measure of a leader by the body count they leave behind. Trump's doing far better than most of his predecessors. A true Liberal concerned with Life and Liberty and Fairness ought to be pretty happy about his desire to avoid mass bloodshed, but instead they go into hysterics, focusing on nonsense about who gets to hold the mic."
Wow. People physically recoil, like they been gut punched or something. "Oh my god, there's an Other among the flock!" They get jittery, they lose composure, they lose their ability to speak coherently, they lose the thread and a goodly portion of their shit. I think it is fair to say that these are not reasoned reactions. That's some kind of lower-brain knee-jerk emotional cult-like bullshit exerting itself right there!
One can only wonder what would happen if Trump were to respond in kind by opening a predatory fishing expedition into this zealot woman's life in an effort to find something, (anything!) to have her arrested for.
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