Cognitive effort should not be wasted on such trivialities.
Perceptive writing from the great Jeff Sharlet:
By naming the enemy simply “Intel,” likeyou already know who or what it is, as if you share the strongman’s hatred, Trump and Fox sweep their viewers into conspiracism as if it’s simple as “they sky is blue.” “Intel,” Trump expounds, is "evil... They were doing things I won’t mention here because it’s so conspiratorial.” Cue Q. Fox viewers are free to imagine the meaning of “evil.” This false freedom is key to the con. It makes the believer feel not passive but active, a collaborator in an expose that hasn’t actually been exposed. What’s the evilest evil? Child. Trafficking. Trump knows this is where the believer’s mind is going. He’s led it there. https://jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/saturday-night-and-sunday-morning
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Perceptive writing from the great Jeff Sharlet:
By naming the enemy simply “Intel,” likeyou already know who or what it is, as if you share the strongman’s hatred, Trump and Fox sweep their viewers into conspiracism as if it’s simple as “they sky is blue.”
“Intel,” Trump expounds, is "evil... They were doing things I won’t mention here because it’s so conspiratorial.”
Cue Q. Fox viewers are free to imagine the meaning of “evil.” This false freedom is key to the con. It makes the believer feel not passive but active, a collaborator in an expose that hasn’t actually been exposed. What’s the evilest evil? Child. Trafficking. Trump knows this is where the believer’s mind is going. He’s led it there.
https://jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/saturday-night-and-sunday-morning