One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).
We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.
The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.
The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.
A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.
That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.
Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.
The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.
Erling Haaland’s interview after the game. This guy is a top professional. Just top. Be it in defeat or in his wins. Thank you Erling. Norway may have been knocked out but you won the hearts of millions of people across America and all over the world. 🇳🇴
Something interesting and unpredictable is happening around the country. In blue states Republicans are doing unusually well.
In Oregon, according to a survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies, Republican Christine Drazan leads Governor Tina Kotek 48 percent to 44 percent.
In Minnesota Republican senate candidate Michelle Lafoya is tied at 47 with Democratic Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan.
Hard to believe there is a blue wave coming when states like Minnesota and Oregon are in play. The continued rise of the big government socialist-weird values Democrats seems to be turning off a lot of people even in states that have traditionally been very leftwing.
The fact this one dude - by himself - can walk into any state and find blatant fraud everywhere he goes proves two things: 1) the fraud is rampant at an unprecedented scale and 2) the government agencies who are supposed to protect our tax dollars are either completely incompetent or complicit in the fraud.
I’ve always conducted myself as a professional with sacrosanct respect, but I have to get something off of my chest:
Right now, at this very moment, we don’t know the true status of Senator Mitch McConnell’s health (we wish him well)
& then we find out that Senator Lindsey Graham died from a “brief and sudden illness” after traveling to Ukraine & Turkey.
What the heck does that even mean?
A “brief and sudden illness” really turns my stomach
because if our Senate/gov’t cant be honest about the health of its colleagues,
then how can we even believe them about the deaths of its colleagues?
“This past week, I have seen something I'm still trying to unpack and put into words, and someone asked me, ‘Do you still want to go to the Chapter Leadership Summit?’... And I thought to myself, ‘You know, if you don't fight for what's right—I would much rather our country look like this room than the inside of that courtroom.’”
@MrsErikaKirk at CLS 2026
And the worst thing is paying tributes only proved America was weak and invited even bigger demands.
Until Jefferson sailed to Tripoli, bombarded their harbors, and put Marines on the ground.
Because evil exploits weakness, takes what it can, and comes back for more.
It doesn’t negotiate in good faith.
So the only solution to pirates, terrorists, and tyrants is overwhelming force that makes further aggression impossible.
Appease evil and you just buy the next attack.
This is how the NYC Adult Daycare scam works:
- Daycare is funded by Medicaid
- The more patients=more money
- Patients receive kickbacks for attending daycare and bringing friends (referral program)
- Our taxes pay for elderly Koreans to play ping pong & tai chi
END IT ALL
Norway is a reminder that nations are not something to be embarrassed by.
A people with a strong sense of history, a shared identity, and the confidence to celebrate their country without apology. Rather than weakening them, it gives them cohesion. We’ve been told that national pride is something be ashamed of. Yet the countries most admired around the world are often those most comfortable with who they are.
Nations aren’t the problem. They’re one of the greatest achievements of civilisation.
Norway is a lesson to us all.
Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax."
Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?"
Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely."
Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke."
Activist: "But the land's worth millions."
Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm."
Activist: "So sell a corner of it."
Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way."
Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it."
Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill."
Activist: "It's still an asset."
Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."