On 5/24/2016 12:46 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> So on the one hand, part of me wants to tell Patrick to calm down dude.
> On the other hand... slightly scary times.

lol Well, even if I got wordy.. This is the general sentiment of at 
least a half dozen bloggers I know, who are research scientists, at 
least one cartoonist, who did a cartoon in which the guy stated, "X may 
be true in Y rare case.", and an hour later his grandmother was saying, 
"Did you here that X cures Z, because Y!!!" So.. Yeah.. there is no 
sense, in journalism, or any place else, of any real desire or interest 
in getting facts right. Its almost worse than the days when, "Getting 
the facts right.", meant, "Not contradicting the government.", since, at 
least in the US, at the time, the government actually thought that being 
right, instead of just pretending to be right, like those damn reds, was 
a sign of American superiority.

Now.. its a race to see which part of the press will propagate your 
propaganda, no matter how bloody disconnected from reality that 
propaganda actually is (see the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, or the Trump 
campaign, on one side, or the claims by the Democrats that they are 
"liberal progressives" on the other).

:p

Its not hopeless, by a long shot, but.. since the hope is in 
"alternative media", and that is on the internet, and the internet has 
even less control, or interest in getting facts right, as a whole.. its 
sort of becoming a case of, "Which alternate parallel universe do you 
prefer to live in, and how upset will you be when reality turns out to 
be in, 'one of the other ones'?" lol

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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