He Who Is Force-Fed False History Is Condemned Never To Know He’s Repeating It
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:
Everyone is an expert about what they know. But what if everything you know is wrong?
The Wikipedia article on Sad Puppies is wrong, viciously wrong, libelously wrong. I know, I lived through it, I was there at the beginning. But I’m just one person and I have no power to educate the world. The Liberals who edit Wikipedia have spoken and every AI bot repeats their story as if it were The Truth with capital “Ts.” Anyone who reads it is misinformed, misled, deceived. Any opinions formed on that basis are misguided. Any actions taken as a result will lead to error.
Okay, so don’t rely on Wikipedia. Use the Google or Bing search engine to get many different results to compare. Read the first half-a-dozen results to learn the truth. Ahhh, but the first half-a-dozen results are articles selected for you by an algorithm written by the same Liberals who curate Wikipedia. They all say the same thing, reinforce the same point. It’s like going to the Planned Parenthood headquarters and asking the first ten abortionists you meet what they think of killing babies. Of course they all say the same thing. That’s what a party line is for.
If all you know about Sad Puppies comes from Wikipedia, you know nothing about Sad Puppies. Who cares, tempest in a teapot. Yes, but if all you know of the JFK assassination comes from the Oliver Stone movie, and if all you know of Covid comes from the Star Tribune, and if all you know of January 6 comes from Democrats . . . you get the idea. Bad enough for us, who lived it and thus can recognize the lies. What about our kids, and grandkids? How will they learn the truth?
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Joe Doakes
August 27th, 2025 at 8:56 am
An interesting perspective on the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
You know, Joe, it actually takes some work to find the truth and then, sometimes even some guts to accept it as such. The Kung Flu is a classic case. However, I don’t see why this is any different nowadays than in the past. The flat earth theory, geocentrism, or the impossibility of heavier-than-air vehicles were all well-established positions. Until they weren’t. The truth has always been difficult to find and accept.
We’re actually seeing an example how the truth emerges recently in the area of criminal justice (a field which apparently has to be re-invented every 50 years, what a scam). The aftereffects of DJT’s efforts to remove (illegal) immigrant criminals nationally have been elucidating. But the really interesting finding comes from removing all criminals regardless of nationality in DC. Huh. Removing criminals makes crime go down. Who’da thunk it?
August 27th, 2025 at 9:31 am
“Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
as math is the key — and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn’t look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.”
– Robert Heinlein
August 27th, 2025 at 9:39 am
What good is knowledge if you can’t find it – lack of library science – or if it’s hidden from you – algorithm – either way is the same as not having the knowledge at all. What’s even worse is being tricked into believing the wrong knowledge.
“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
– Ronald Reagan
August 27th, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Exactly the same story as Gamergate. Hard to find the truth anymore.
August 31st, 2025 at 6:22 pm
Around about this time, Avery Librelle should show up …
Yep! There she is!