Saturday, July 18, 2020
Rare candor from an insider
Spiked UK has an article written by a former prime minister of Iceland. We rarely get to read candid thoughts by former PMs, even though Iceland is an extremely small place and its PM is more like a mayor.
He shows how Iceland, an ethnically pure and strong community, pretty much one big family, was ripped apart by social media. The ripping helped to make the 2008 bank coup possible.
One particular fact stands out. The hack of the Panama Papers exposed several tax-avoiding crooks in Iceland, but also "exposed" this PM. He was able to refute the false accusation easily because of the small and basically transparent structure of Iceland. Still it's a good warning. Deepstate always runs both "sides". Some hacks are real, some hacks are Deepstate's efforts to destroy its enemies.
In the end it comes down to Be Your Own Beacon as usual. Observe reality directly and don't let Deepstate memoryhole or distort your own direct observations. Treat hacks the same way you treat other media excrescences called "news" "stories". If a hack agrees with what you already know from direct experience, it's probably valid. If it disagrees with direct experience, it's probably fake. If it's outside of your direct experience, you simply can't judge.
Hacks aren't Shannon information. You can't rely on them to tell you something you don't already know.
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