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    Billy Bob posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago

    I guess as part of the “New Normal”, politicians being vetted for scandals is no longer applicable or needed now that both the MSM and the Internet are controlled.
    Sure makes it easier to make an informed decision and to gather information to think I am thinking for myself.

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      Scarmoge replied 5 years, 3 months ago

      … Billy Bob you bring forth one of the important questions … How does one know when one is thinking for oneself?
      To paraphrase C.S. Peirce … One must begin reasoning where one finds oneself. A suggestion, after all you are all sovereign and free and will keep or toss as you will, to begin with a consideration of the questions raised in Plato’s Republic (Book 7 – The Allegory of Cave). Cartesian projects of one kind or another to find “the first premiss” (much like the search for ‘original christianity’) are for the most part a distraction and can be an incredible blackhole for one’s time. Here is a clip from The Truman Show showing Truman “starting where he finds himself”.
      https://youtu.be/6ZMZYrdXtP0

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          Billy Bob replied 5 years, 3 months ago

          Thanks. Good analogy should keep me thinking for awhile about thinking for myself. Now if I can only find that door.