This article is awful on linguistic merits alone since it borrows the reporting style of "Pravda," which I find unforgivable. This is exactly how free-thinking artists with clear eyes and live souls were covered in the Soviet establishment media.https://buff.ly/32EMKY5
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The good news is that history straightens things out. There was a time when a large number of adults felt very smart for believing and repeating Pravda's headlines. They sincerely thought that dissidents were crazy and dangerous mofos. But time passed, and facts prevailed.
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might you say more about what in the article reminded you of Pravda? I didn't experience the piece as propagandistic, while granting that it didn't justify in rigorous detail its assumption that an unfettered marketplace of ideas isn't a flawless vehicle for identifying the truth
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It's the solemn absolutist tone based on the assumption that the establishment narrative is "obviously true" (while in reality, it is either a subjective preference or a blatant lie), and that anybody who dares deviate is a fool, at best, and dangerous in any case.
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thanks for the reply. seems to me the establishment narrative about COVID is still emerging from study & debate. I grant for sure that the piece has a point of view, but I tend to see it as more or less right.
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maybe it could have done better by identifying areas of greatest confidence and greatest uncertainty within that narrative.
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Unfortunately, at least to my senses and in my honest estimate of a former academic and an artist thirsty for facts whatever they are, it's rooted in corruption and payola, with smearing of dissenting voices to make sure that the narrative is shaped from the top down.
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Which is very Soviet (including the use of language). That recognizable absolutist tone and the public acceptance of smearing dissidents as "crazy" (based on arbitrary narratives presented as "facts" and accepted mostly due to repetition) is exactly how a culture commits suicide.
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