Sunday Thoughts

If it is Sunday, well, it is Sunday.

Quick Note: There is some clicking in parts of the show that I could not clean up. I am not sure where it is coming from and I could not figure out how to strip them from the recording. I have to upgrade my software, apparently, in order to have that tool.

Way back during Covid I wondered out loud a few times how the regime media would walk back the things they were saying that were obviously untrue. It feels like a million years ago, but they were sure we had two weeks to bend the curve. They were sure that we were facing a long dark winter of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. None of that was true, but they just moved on like it never happened and all of it has been forgotten. It really is remarkable.

In fairness, there are people on-line who have not forgotten. They are the ones talking about the healthy people keeling over dead for no reason. These are the disinformation merchants in league with Putin and Trump. What sort of impact this has had on society is hard to gauge. Lying is not a cost free enterprise for any ruling class, so it seems like it should have had some consequences. Maybe it has and it is all under the surface, slowly building pressure.

I have had similar thoughts about the Russia business. There are a lot of people who think the Ukrainians are ready to march on Moscow. They think Putin is about to be arrested and executed any day for being Hitler. The bridge story is a good example. They accepted without question that the most important bridge in the world was destroyed by Ukraine. The last few years has been a population-wide study of the Gell-Man amnesia effect.

I wonder what happens when winter comes. The Russians are planning a winter offensive and they have been doing so since the summer. They are committing a lot of resources to it. There was never a question about who was going to win in this war when it started. The question was whether it would end at the negotiating table or on the battlefield. How is the regime media going to walk back all of the things they have been saying for months?

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