Tryanny's Best Kept Secret: It's ALL About Epistemology
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Then, when people make the leap of faith from "evidence" that would not prove the argued position in a court of law, opinion trumps "the burden of actionable-evidence" and forevermore the inevitable beneficiaries in this welter of competing conjecture-and-assertion are wealthy far-right individuals who have little (or no) interest in Truth while being obsessed with self-aggrandizement and ever-expanding wealth inequality.
It is not coincindental but pathognomic that Trump launched his presidential career on the back of conspiratorial birtherism. "His Despicability" knew birtherism was bullshit, but the ploy served his solipsistic self-seeking purposes.
And here we are with a traitor in The White House, a man completely uninterested in democratic process while nourishing his innate autocratic inclinations at every opportunity.
G.K. Chesterton accurately characterized Trump and his filthy-rich fellows in The Plutocracy Club.
"The merely rich are not rich enough to rule the modern market. The things that change modern history, the big national and international loans, the big educational and philanthropic foundations, the purchase of numberless newspapers, the big prices paid for peerages, the big expenses often incurred in elections - these are getting too big for everybody except the misers; the men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims.
There are two other odd and rather important things to be said about them. The first is this: that with this aristocracy we do not have the chance of a lucky variety in types which belongs to larger and looser aristocracies. The moderately rich include all kinds of people even good people. Even priests are sometimes saints; and even soldiers are sometimes heroes. Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it." G. K. Chesterton
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