I’ve just written a chunk for my book about the death of my husband. In it I mention that the date of his diagnosis was the same day as JF Kennedy was assassinated: November 22nd.
A troll then started to pick at whether I really believed that JFK had been assassinated, and then when I replied that my writing was about my husband, not any ‘conspiracy’, this person accused me of “sidestepping the question.”
This is why I have come to despise a certain tiny group of ‘conspiracists’. They have lost …
It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. And that fat lady ain’t even in the building.
But many of us are doing our bit to get her there.
Thanks for this
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
— Hannah Arendt