Re: <nettime> nettime-l Digest, Vol 174, Issue 40

[Ted Byfield <tedbyfield@gmail.com>]

This is my favorite debate strategy: when you don’t have a substantive argument, just say your interlocutors are incapable of understanding the truth.  It works for Macgregor’s fanboys on Fox, no reason it shouldn’t work on nettime. 

Cheers,
Ted

On Mar 17, 2022, 18:26 -0400, Stefan Heidenreich <mail@stefanheidenreich.de>, wrote:

it's a double bind + cognitive dissonance problem:

for most western intellectuals, after years of fighting for the right
causes (which I also supported and keep supporting) it is very difficult
to realize that one has been gaslighted as useful idiot for the
military-industrial complex.

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