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KY_EnviroGuy

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63. A hypocrite or is part of his letter missing?

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 01:05 PM

Nov 2017

Quote:
"Without individuals thinking for themselves, society as a whole will struggle to distinguish the signal of
truth from the correlated noise of conformity."

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Where's his criticism of the right-wing thought control bubble primarily made up of Faux News, a multitude of talk radio stations, and dozens of billionaire-funded think tanks?

He also fails to mention where exactly he proposes we might find that "signal of truth".

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