historical editing in the internet age


President Obama has declared he “didn’t campaign on the public option.”

the net makes managing the memory hole a bit more difficult. with the ready availability of historical records, such management now depends upon the willful ignorance of the faithful in conjunction with the strategic ignorance of those who realize that truth only undermines the party and makes it vulnerable.

in short, most things are now hidden in plain site and people accept lies either out of a knee-jerk loyalty or a strategic calculation of political reality. either way, whether emotionally or rationally partisan, the label “Reality-Based Community” does not apply.

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