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#168: Orwell 2.0 (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Filtering Reality and Thomas Sowel's Intellectuals and Society

John Avon: I want to share just a few excerpts from Thomas Sowel's book, Intellectuals and Society. He writes that many among the intelligentsia create their own reality by filtering out information contrary to their conception of how the world is or ought to be. This can take the form of reporting selective and atypical samples, suppressing some facts altogether, or filtering out inconvenient meanings or connotations of words," he says. The first little excerpt shows two examples of how in the past media has led,. well, the first one is a call for actual censorship of books. But the idea that ABC looked at 50 states found a trend that should make all of us feel good

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