Saturday, March 05, 2016

Let's abandon facts

Facts are nothing but a nuisance.  When that alarm clock goes off it does so because it thinks it is six in the morning.  If you believe it, you might have to get up.  This is where Fox News comes in.  That alarm clock has a liberal bias, just like The New York Times the alarm clock is just giving an opinion, and the opinion is meaningless because the alarm clock is showing us a time we really don't want to get up.  This is how we have entered the new world of factless Republican certainty.  We now have a new way of finding out if something is factual.  If a lot of people believe something, then it is a fact.  President Obama was born in Kenya because a lot of people believed it.  Donald Trump can be trusted because a lot of people trust him. Experts used to be people who studied and knew something, but now expertise is based on who is the best and most clever liar.  Am I fat?  No point in stepping on a scale.  The scale is biased by gravity.  So I think I will just ask some people if I am fat. I will be careful to ask fat people.  The new reality is great.  You invent it to suit your needs.  Facts just confuse people, and often they are hard to understand, so let's quit this nonsense of relying of factual information.

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