Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Facing a Brick Wall

 How do you argue with someone who rejects your every source of information, statistics, and data as biased and illegitimate? When they consider established places like the New York Times, UN agencies, even encyclopedias and almanacs, as purveyors of "deep state" conspiracy?

If you can't even come to agreement on well-known historical events like the American Revolution, Civil War, civil rights movement, and how they happened and what their outcomes were, how do you have a rational discussion?

We often talk of speaking to a brick wall. This may be worse. A brick wall simply doesn't respond. This is like getting back a distorted echo.


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