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To: maceng2 who wrote (176171)	8/12/2021 3:18:01 PM
From: sense	1 Recommendation Recommended By maceng2 Respond to of 217730

True even in the case of the person in the wrong, being wrong, and never figuring it out... For the person in the right... figuring out why the other guy is wrong... can provide lots of useful insight... which wouldn't necessarily happen without the error demanding consideration. Often enough that error made by the committed will boil down to Upton Sinclair's “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Broaden that a bit with the realization that money is not the only thing that motivates people, and that probably accounts for most if not all of the deliberately fostered error... including all of that in the media knowingly fostering lies as truths and suppressing truths as lies... all of which Orwell explains well enough. There are costs, of course, in adopting the suppression of truth as policy... and costs in fostering belief in lies... and what those doing that and justifying it are telling you... is that what they believe is so much more right, and so much more important than just truth or lies... that the "value" issue in the telling itself becomes an irrelevancy... so "bigger" truths... require telling lies about all truths ? But, when suppression of truth is enabled... you never know what the truth is... and over time everything is corrupted by the feedback loop enabling growing detachment from truth over time as "the truth doesn't matter" controls everything... right up until it turns out... the truth does actually matter... Masks work... if they are masks that work... but don't if they aren't ? We don't actually, know, now, what impact systemic adoption of ONLY functional masks might have on limiting the spread of a virus... because the lies permeate the discussion... and corrupt decision making ? But, its not just that one thing... it controls everything, now... It's not just Orwell's "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act !"... It's that when no others care enough to determine the truth... those that do may appear to be clairvoyant ? And, full circle back to why a free market imposes disciplines that today's markets lack... explaining both why "get woke, go broke" is more than a meme... and why "cheaters never prosper" is a lie... as knowing the truth and being truthful are very different things.