Another reprint from 2008, plus recalibration
Blog stats showed that one of the automatic bots was "reading" this 2008 item for unknown random reasons. I'd forgotten the item, and it's worth actually READING again.

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Polistra has been listening to the absolutely wonderful quiz show Information Please. In one 1943 episode, a question comes up about modern Cassandras, people who warned us long in advance of the Jap and Kraut menace. The panel offers five or six answers to each specific question, and the discussion is entirely matter-of-fact; no attempt by anyone to shout over the others, no accusations of insanity. Bear in mind that wartime censorship was fully in charge, so the topic was clearly approved by the authorities as well.

Listen to 1943 freedom. (app. 2 minutes)

Could this happen today? Nope. The discussion might start, but no moderator or host would allow it to continue. The official BushClinton line is verbatim: "Nobody could possibly have expected 9/11 to happen." Anyone who tries to state or prove otherwise is immediately branded a Paranoid Tinfoil-Hat Wearer, and is banned from all future appearances. The topic is allowed to percolate in a small segment of the blogworld, but the Tinfoil Curtain stops it before it reaches the public.

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Broader point: In 1943 everyone understood the elementary notion of learning from mistakes. Everyone understood that discussing the 'Cassandras' would help us to heed future warnings, because everyone understood that history has patterns. Since 1990 the whole notion of patterns and cycles has disappeared. Temperature is going up? It must continue to go up. Stock market going up? It must continue to go up. Nobody is bombing us at this moment? We can safely assume nobody will ever bomb us. This is nothing less than INFANTILE, except that actual infants don't shout down people who can think rationally. An infant doesn't place his mother in the insane asylum when the mother tries to stop him from crawling into the street.

Oops... on second thought, actual infants do shout down adults who try to save them from stupidity. It's called a tantrum. So I guess there's no difference at all between actual infants and modern adults.

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Recalibrating: At that time I clearly HADN'T learned about 9/11 from my own mistakes. I was still watching TV, still locked inside the neocon myth that Sheikh Osama was the attacker. After I unplugged the TV, I could reprocess the available information, regaining my own previous experience with Deepstate stings, to see the obvious truth that 9/11 was some kind of sting or false flag operation. We still don't know exactly who was doing it or why, but we can see for sure that Osama wasn't an independent foreign power attacking us for his own purposes.

This is why I have considerable empathy and sympathy for the 'Karens' who have been knocked over and brain-raped by the current panic. It can happen to anyone who is tied to the media. When you're hardwired to Deepstate you have NO DEFENSE against Deepstate's beatings and rapes. The first defense is disconnection. First quarantine yourself from the TV. Then you won't have to quarantine yourself against a perfectly ordinary everyday virus that you wouldn't even notice in real life.
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