“Nobody Knows Anything” Feels Truer Than It Ever Was – Saturday Night OT

 

 

The first time I ever heard that (“Nobody Knows Anything”, not this “my ancestors already paid these loans” mic drop) it was claimed to’ve been said by a Hollywood mogul (Mayer?) in the Studio Golden Age.

 

Right now – this timeline, this year, these last two days, this minute – there are questions of what we know versus what we believe versus what we’re taught to believe. The last depends on the info sources to which we’re exposed and those we can access, as well as those potential info sources to which we’re prohibited access by those who claim (or try to) authority to do that.

 Also affecting efforts to grok what we might know are what feel like neverending torrents of even “official” misinformation & disinformation

Fashion Influencers Go On Fake *ss Trip ToFake *ss SHEIN Factory – Robyn Elise, Wonkette

Just using the up-to-the-minute example, Jemele Hill and Sherrilyn Ifill** have both made the point that what might feel like the American collective blackout concerning the current crisis in Russia, w/its global implications, is exacerbated by the elimination over time of so many foreign correspondents, and even entire bureaus, in the wake of a surfeit of media consolidation the feds won’t or can’t cure (since progressives can’t manage to stay in power long enough to pass some decent antitrust laws (the last being my own observational summary of that ongoing crisis)).

 

** who I'll now be referring to regularly as "Professor Sherrilyn", given the recent announcement that she's received the Vernon Jordan Endowed Chair for Civil Rights at the Howard University School of Law, and on those whom we know have more than earned it I prefer in regular discourse to bestow the honorific frequently so it becomes familiar

What I hope, though, are two things –

 

-      that the axiom is adopted instead as a catalyst for us to QUESTION EVERYTHING the “official authority sources” claim to be telling us

 

(I mean, we don’t know anything about long COVID yet and we never did, and when I say “we” I’m including the doctors who tell people who are suffering with it up to the minute that they don’t know anything – at least that’s what the honest ones do) – and

 

-      that we use & remember it to cultivate & ferret out new independent reliable info sources as well as to keep making our own game/name/innovations in space

 

everybody keep ya head up