January 2022 – The Living Room Times

Lies are stronger than the truth

Brendan January 29, 2022 Comments Off

The other day, in a thread replying to a Joe Remi tweet about the latest deadly lies about COVID on Tucker Carlson’s disinformation show, I found myself saying this: Demagogic lies are stronger than nuanced facts. Simplistic fantasies are stronger than inconvenient, complex realities. In a wholly unfettered marketplace of ideas—without even informal guardrails—evil outcompetes good; lies trump the truth…. Read more »

Wordle #220

Brendan January 25, 2022 Comments Off

[This post is being published on April 11, 2022, but it’s back-dated to the date of the Wordle in question.] Wordle burst onto the mainstream social-media scene while I was on vacation in Florida. Upon my return, I initially mocked it (with a nerdy Star Trek reference, natch). But then, on January 25, I finally gave in.