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Q: Why do dogs lick their bollocks?

A: Because they can.

Alexei Sayle quote about laughing at fascists

The bullshit detector defeat device

We can deploy technology to tell the world want it wants to believe — diesel defeat devices
— fake news
— premium mediocre
— statistical misuse
— metaverse: a world that isn’t a world (Facebook) and a universe that isn't the universe (cosmology) — “Content” that has no content
— Currency that isn't a currency
— Commodities that aren’t commodities
— meat that isn’t meat
— genders that aren’t genders
— Women who aren't women

This is all notwithstanding the fact that no-one of us really mean what we say, or do what we say we will. No-one actually prefers impossible meat. 8f you have ethical concerns about animals be a vegetarian. If you’d kill for bacon, exercise some restraint. Suffer some hardship for your principles.

We are like the third generation of hard-working grandparents, petulantly pissing all their hard-earned wealth away. In our way that is exactly what we are. Our grandparents fought in wars, lived on rations, won the freedom and built the wealth that we of the western elite enjoy.

We have diffused our outrage upon trifles. Ours is a culture of ongoing indignance: indignance at cultural appropriation, and fantasy grievances.

Delusional teen-agers are nothing new.