Thread by @wretchardthecat

I am rereading Arthur Conan Doyle's "Crime of the Congo", detailing little Belgium's monumental atrocities in Africa, made famous in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

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It's easy to understand in retrospect how Europe blundered into the Great War. It had lost track of reality. Watching the way in which the media makes its own narrative one wonders whether the seed of destruction lies not so much without as within.

Do they really think that because they have censored Steven Crowder that the things he talks about don't exist any more? Or have they just taken a needle to their eye? And when they are blindsided will they say, "how the hell?"

An honest post-mortem of the intelligence failures of the last 30 years will reveal not that we couldn't see but that we didn't want to.

No range information. That's how you miss a layup alone from under the basket. The unseen 8 foot center who blocked your shot was you.