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How to prove there is no genocide in Xinjiang? You can’t prove a negative, so don’t try, because you’ll be using the liar’s narrative, which is the whole purpose of the lie. Once you start answering the lie, you will lose no matter what because you’re giving credence to the lie, and people’s mind will be made up by a human defect known as “Conformation Bias,” which is characterized by “my mind is made up, don’t confuse me with facts.” This is the War of Narratives; if you don’t believe in its power, try answering to the false accusation that you’re a pedophile and a sex predator. So what can one do to combat lies? Reveal the liars and their lies. Attack the liars at their foundation. If the liars lie every time they open their mouth, why should anyone believe in their lies about China? If the villagers do not trust the boy who cries wolf three times, why should anyone waste even a second of their time pondering the endless lies that erupt from the mouth of habitual and pathological liars? You can't even fool a squirrel three times with the same trick. Maybe it’s not the liars that is the problem but the people who give credence to the lying machine’s thirty thousand lies. Maybe it's another human defect known as hypocrisy. We choose to believe in a certain lie because it makes us feel good. It reinforces hidden prejudices that have been spawned by other lies. Meanwhile the liars are rewarded by being elected to positions of wealth, prestige, and power. Why should the liars stop lying? Let me share the indignant voice of a rare mainstream journalist Yonden Lhatoo, Chief News Editor of the South China Morning Post, who excoriated the insufferable hypocrites of the West on SCMP’s official YouTube channel. Click the link and enjoy. In closing, I would also like to share the prophetic words of a sage written in 1995, not long before his passing to a better realm: "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what is true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (my comment: Wow! I forgot how long the sound bites were; YouTube now has 6 second ads), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentation on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." -- Carl Sagan (from his 1995 Best seller "The Demon-Haunted World -- Science as a Candle in the Dark") We have met the enemy and he is us. By Peter Man
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