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Lake Street Dive: "Stop Your Crying"

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Interesting Times11/15/2020 10:41:59 am PST

re: #245 Hecuba’s daughter

Too much time lurking in the RW bubble can suck anyone in. There is the real world and then there is alternative reality— and this alternative reality blinds you to the truth and makes you more susceptible to accepting statements that are outright lies.

It’s actually far worse than that - we know that tens of millions of Americans are ridiculously susceptible to brainwashing and mass delusion…but if it’s so easy to fool people into believing bad, dangerous things, why isn’t equally easy to get them to believe or accept good things? The answer is in this thread by award-winning sci-fi author N.K. Jemisin (and one really needs to read the whole thing):