Instead I find myself daily doing the little dance we're all familiar with - uncomfortable with being "uninformed" - yet at almost every turn finding myself being routinely - "misinformed" - and so having to sift through the endless debris to have any chance at developing any coherent understanding of the world.
So yes, I totally get the draw of just saying to hell with the internet. After years of shifting through the endless propaganda operations our generation has been subject too, I have no doubt you and I see through most the nonsense for what it is before we even have the proof in hand. Once the rose-colored glasses of 'American exceptionalism' are off, one can almost sense and see through the lies in real time even as they are being uttered.
Reading Gary's words reminded me of those of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton's definition of the Unspeakable:
It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said, the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience.
Yes, real time, real life - as we do our little dances.
Can we do our little dances and preserve reality? I'm not sure.
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