Esther Baker appeared before Liverpool Crown Court this morning, Wednesday, February 11, charged with four counts of perverting the course of justice. https://t.co/bkiU3iyVb9 #CSA
As someone who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it), let me tell you something:
The lies Trump, Vance and Miller say are not meant to be believed by their followers.
They are meant to be REPEATED.
The repetition of the lie is the test of loyalty to the cult.
This pattern is ancient.
The less someone knows, the louder the certainty. Ignorance doesn’t create doubt - it creates confidence.
When understanding is shallow, expertise looks like conspiracy.
So evidence becomes “lies,” and experts become “enemies.”
This poem was written in Afghanistan by a woman who is now too scared to share her name because that might reveal she is secretly studying. She can read your appreciation though and it means a lot.
@I_amMukhtar H. L. Mencken said
"No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby."
Interesting thread.
I pondering about institutions such as hierarchical organisations typified by Church of England, of Rome and Salvation Army. Persons whose standing depends on an institution may have a moral intuition to put the reputation of that institution above the truth
🧵Thus, if you believe that morality is objective and that our ethical intuitions serve as a reliable heuristic for discerning right and wrong, then these beliefs find stronger grounding within a teleological paradigm.
🧵Thus, if you believe that morality is objective and that our ethical intuitions serve as a reliable heuristic for discerning right and wrong, then these beliefs find stronger grounding within a teleological paradigm.
Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
I just spent a couple of hours exploring this https://t.co/jPOD9gVaHm interesting and informative site. Pre-pottery neolithic pre-dating Britains neolithic by thousands of years,
#GobekliTepe‘s monumental T-pillars are actually giant #anthropomorphic sculptures. Got to admit that in the beginning of my work there, more than 12 yrs ago, I found it quite ... challenging to recognize this likeness. Until we finally excavated the 'hands & loincloth' part ...