Copy-pasta from Carole Cadwalladr’s 20 lessons for the post-truth world, with light editing, plus formatting.
Believe people the first time.
The Fourth Estate already failed. Now is the time of citizen pamphleteers.
The campaign to find those disloyal to the Naked Emperor’s regime will be relentless.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. The institutions will not save you.
Listen to people who’ve been through this before elsewhere.
Do not obey in advance by prematurely bending the knee.
To avoid being emotionally manipulated by Beatitude-less Dominionists, Torah-less Kahanists, Sufi-less Islamists, Brahmos-less Hindutva and spirit-less atheists, you have to develop first-principles, know thyself, and your own core values.
They are literally counting on you not paying attention.
Good luck!
You’ll need it.
Weak and scared neighbors will rat you out to save themselves. That is just how fearful people operate.
The phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” originates from the tragic events of the Jonestown Massacre on November 18, 1978, led by cult leader Jim Jones. Over 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in a mass murder-suicide by consuming a cyanide-laced beverage.
The most marginalized catch the worst much earlier than everyone else. Believe them.
The creepy weirdos have lawyers and no morals. Gird your loins.
The zone will be continuously flooded with bullshit. The objective is to overwhelm you into tuning everything out.
Find and focus on the humanity. It’s more difficult to dehumanize actual humans, than nameless, faceless Others.
The techbroligarchs view your data as a pretext to suck you dry like a vampire.
Be morally and ethically well in always framing the creepy weirdos as just that.
The supportive allies will reveal themselves where and when you least expect it.
Tyrants believe they will suffer no consequences for inventing truths.
Brown v Board (1954) overturned Plessy v Ferguson (1896). The losers have been butt-hurt and plotting since then. It takes a long time.
Viktor Frankl, in his book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” emphasized the power of humor as a tool for survival and mental resilience, even in the direst circumstances.
The creepy weirdos wipe themselves, stand up, and look in the toilet bowl, just like you.
