😆 That was a hilarious and spot-on illustration of menticide—thank you for the laugh, james!
Fortunately, a federal judge who actually understands the Constitution issued a preliminary injunction against AB2098, and then Newsom repealed it because he knew it was doomed to defeat and he is trying to white-out his authoritarian rampage before giving the presidency a go:
“We need to get back to relying on truth being defined by experts not the internet!”
Big Brother, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and all other totalitarians agree that the experts they bankroll should be accepted as the Ministers of Truth and that anyone who has the audacity to critically assess a wide variety of sources from thousands of scientists, physicians, data analysts, and independent journalists and then make their own determination about the veracity of that information should be punished for being a disobedient thoughtcriminal and enemy of the State.
Everyone knows good citizens don’t think for themselves, question authority, challenge the astroturfed narrative, or seek out trustworthy sources. It is their duty to believe everything the television tells them, Trust The $cience™, and mindlessly accept the daily gaslighting from the very people who have been demonstrably lying to us for years.
Don’t worry, Newspeak will soon be the official global language, and then people won’t be capable of judiciously assessing the claims of experts for themselves:
“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought—that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
“Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.”
