Is it possible to change thinking about the Current Thing?

Via Bill Rice,

I think these statements of conviction and belief cover and explain just about everything …

“I support the Current Thing.”

Re-stated: 

“I do NOT question the Official Narrative.”

Re-stated again: 

“I trust the people and organizations I’ve been told told are experts.” 

A little more specific: 

“I trust the government (and its bureaucrats and the politicians).”

“I trust the mainstream press.” 

“I trust Big Pharma.”

The bottom-line point of view:

“All of these officials and organizations are protecting me. I am so grateful to all of these people and organizations.”

Re-stated one more way: 

“I do NOT trust anyone who challenges the experts. These people should be silenced and are a great threat to our world. These people are trying to harm me. 

“I am happy and honored to do my part to silence these people and am happy to have dis-associated from so many of these dangerous extremists and science deniers. I encourage my friends to do the same and I will support politicians who crack down on people who produce disinformation and attempt to challenge the experts who are protecting me.”

Who is the “I’ that believes these things?

About 80 percent of the world population.

Challenge: Come up with strategies that would get this figure to at least 49 percent of the population.

Key Question: How does the group that does NOT hold these views change the thinking of at least 31 percent of the population that might conceivably be open to the idea that their views and beliefs might have been misplaced all along?

Note: This math assumes that a big percentage of people will never change their views and will always “trust the experts.”

Provide a plausible answer to this question and things might change.

My two cents: I think it would have to be real investigative journalism that somehow reached these people - our target audience - over and and over and over again.

The catch: But such real investigative journalism - that might reach the “mainstream” of society - is being blocked. The gatekeepers of the news - and their allies in all the important and “official” organizations - have erected such formidable barriers that it’s almost impossible for the truth to break through. 

My take-away: Once the “current thing” becomes the “current thing” it’s almost impossible to change it.

The Current Thing in our New Normal is that it’s damn near impossible to debunk or challenge the Current Thing.

FWIW, I think this was all by design. 

The good news is that everyone doesn’t buy “The Current Thing.” For example, I now have 2,640 regular Substack readers and I’d bet that none of them accept the “current thing” as gospel. 

My hunch: The number of people who question the “current thing” is growing faster than the number of people who refuse to question it. How will the protectors of the Current Thing respond to this trend?

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- Ope