Thought for Thursday, 04/06:
"The purpose of "woke" propaganda is not to persuade or convince, not to inform -- but to humiliate; and so the less it corresponds to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is eroded. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control." ~ Theodore Dalrymple (The most-seen meme of this referred to "progressive propaganda"; the original version referred to "communist propaganda." Neither true communism, nor true progressivism applies here, but "wokeness" surely does, so I felt obliged to correct this as I did)