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Henk B's avatar

Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) has a similar, but slightly different view on this. The purpose of overt false propaganda is to break the will of the citizenry by forcing them to speak lies.

https://www.amazon.com/Utopias-Elsewhere-Journeys-Vanishing-World/dp/0517585480/ref=as_li_ss_tl?dchild=1&keywords=%22utopias+elsewhere%22&qid=1603474519&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=steveconatser-20&linkId=0425c14451ee604f05695363cc2ceaf1&language=en_US

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Rob, what you write in this column is completely applicable to what is known as "wokeness" and its surfeit of contradictions: if it's de rigueur to accept trans-sexuality, why then is it forbidden to accept trans-racialism and on and on.

It's one way the woke universe and the overclass have of demonstrating its near authoritarian grip on large portions of culture and society.

Contradictions then, are not a problem, they are sites of great propagandist power displays.

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