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As I said ..I think he made some good points and I genuinely wanted to have my thinking challenged. For me …and going beyond the ‘Brand issue’ ..he touched on the increasingly polarised societal issue whereby for one side its all about ‘deep state’, ‘fake news’ and globalist agendas and on the other people conned into a post truth mindset who display ‘naive cynicism’ and look for information outside the mainstream. He makes clear where he stands, as is his right, bur I can’t help thinking that his own phraseology and assumptions are pretty much as ‘naive’ as those he caricatures on t’other side. I AM definitely disillusioned by much of the approach of what I call ‘the legacy media’ and concerned about the erosion of long held assumptions encapsulated in, for example, our evolved institutions. I definitely am concerned about some of the pathologies of the so called and increasing ‘progressive agenda.’ ..but I resent being called ‘naive’,’cynical’ or some kind of ‘conspiracy theorist’ for differing from his perspective. I guess that on the forum folks like yourself have at times been genuinely puzzled and maybe provoked by my wacky perspectives.But if ‘naive’ means unthinking, simplistic and lacking in analytical thought ..then is that a label you would think it fair to stick on me no matter how mistaken you might think me to be? If ‘cynical’ means negative and lacking vision and hope then I would be truly sad if that’s the impression given by any of my contributions. And if being ‘post truth’ means being unconcerned with Truth itself and objective reality ..then, no matter how much I might differ from Sam Leith, I know where love of Truth stands on my hierarchy of values.
ps if you wonder where all that came from..I was going out to do some work but the heavens opened and I had an unexpected hour.