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Mark Kennedy's avatar

T'were ever so. "They [i.e., we modern peasants] lack a hold on the present because the most important of the factors which decide on their livelihood and social position, and the prospects of both, are out of their hands; and there is pretty little or nothing they can do, singly or severally, to bring these factors back under their control. The localities inhabited by them and other people in a similar plight are but airfields on which magnificent flying machines of the global fleet land and take off according to their own, unknown and inscrutable, flight schedules and itineraries; and it is that capricious air traffic on which they have to rely for survival." --Zygmunt Bauman

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JennyStokes's avatar

and herein lies a Tale. Don't trust what you see but trust your judgement.

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Mark Kennedy's avatar

Since it's hard for anybody's judgment to be more reliable than the information that informs it, censorship should be the most non-partisan of issues. I don't understand why so many purportedly liberal Democrats currently seem unable to see this, or how the Twitter Files releases managed to get politicized in the first place. It's a sociological mystery.

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