I felt very similarly as you do when it was Liberation Day in the Netherlands, and I rode my Ode to Freedom poem (https://open.substack.com/pub/roberturbaschek/p/an-ode-to-freedom?r=sjh88). It's getting increasingly hard to look past the eroding and hollowing out of our freedom, and to see how things like freedom of speech only apply to the 'right' people. Some lies have become so blatant that if you pay even cursory attention, you know something is up. I think more people fall into that camp than into the 'believing everything they are told', but they usually can't put their finger on what exactly is wrong.
I think you're right about most people are starting to see through the lies, but it is hard for them to accept that people in "authority" could be lying to them. We're all trained too well to accept authority and believe they have our best interests at heart. But sometimes, nothing could be further from the truth. They just want us to believe the lies and shut up. I'm not one of those people.
You deserve more commentary.
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I felt very similarly as you do when it was Liberation Day in the Netherlands, and I rode my Ode to Freedom poem (https://open.substack.com/pub/roberturbaschek/p/an-ode-to-freedom?r=sjh88). It's getting increasingly hard to look past the eroding and hollowing out of our freedom, and to see how things like freedom of speech only apply to the 'right' people. Some lies have become so blatant that if you pay even cursory attention, you know something is up. I think more people fall into that camp than into the 'believing everything they are told', but they usually can't put their finger on what exactly is wrong.
I think you're right about most people are starting to see through the lies, but it is hard for them to accept that people in "authority" could be lying to them. We're all trained too well to accept authority and believe they have our best interests at heart. But sometimes, nothing could be further from the truth. They just want us to believe the lies and shut up. I'm not one of those people.