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November 20, 2016
hoax vs ideology
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This here is the latest moral panic. Nothing, not even all the gatekeepers and sentries the Times would post every four feet along your parade route of life, will keep you from believing all sorts of terrible jive, if you can't maintain some sort of independent and critical attitude. This has always been the case. On the other hand, another danger is 'bubble,' where let's say the NYTimes constructs an entire ideological world, which floats up off the real world into a complete pseudo-reality. Hoaxes are rather simple delusions in comparison.