The avalanche of falsehood we've witnessed over the last week about Corbyn and antisemitism is like nothing I've seen before.
It's beyond horrifying that obvious frauds are being peddled as if they were unarguable truths.
It's dystopian and chilling and nightmarish.
#ItWasAScam
It's beyond horrifying that obvious frauds are being peddled as if they were unarguable truths.
It's dystopian and chilling and nightmarish.
#ItWasAScam
It's as if we as a society, as a culture, have rejected reality, as if some sickness has infected us such that we are no longer capable of distinguishing fact from fraud, nor even have the wish to do so. As if we have regressed to some primitive state where myth replaces truth.
It's as if facts which anyone can check with their own eyes and ears have been rejected in favour of hysteria, of screaming, blood-crazed bigotry.
It's as if we have simply gone mad as a society, as a culture, and are now living in a world composed entirely of lurid fantasy.
It's as if we have simply gone mad as a society, as a culture, and are now living in a world composed entirely of lurid fantasy.
I fear for us as a society, as a culture. I fear we have abandoned all that makes us truly human - reason, logic, fairness, the pursuit of truth - and have instead embraced the darkest and most atavistic of our impulses. I fear we have become a monstrous, irrational, hateful mob.
I fear for our survival as a decent, rational nation. I fear we may have turned decisively away from reason and chosen instead to indulge in blood-lust, in persecution, in the indecent thrill of hate and howling and hunting down the 'other'.
I fear we may never recover from it.
I fear we may never recover from it.
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