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agree, Simon, that the /debunking of wiretapping/ by FBI director James Comey
and NSA director Mike Rogers is an important move against the whole fake news
thing. I don’t suppose I’m the only one here concerned about the threat of a so
clled Goebbels<span style="" id="yiv6298685599yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490250721555_17073"> </span>or /big lie/ effect
taking hold. Like mass hysteria or collective obsessional behavior—but perhaps
in(cluding) virtual reality platforms. It may be that all ships of state have
two starboard sides and excessively large poop decks. /Epistemic bubbles/ later
popping when punctured by extra linguistic things. Agree too on Alan’s comment
on the importance of failure (and especially glad to get those book titles).
Belief/Deception: You never know. Shelley in ‘A defence of poetry’: ‘[Poets’]
language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended
relations of things, and perpetuates their apprehension, until the words which
represent them, become through time signs for portions or classes of thoughts
instead of pictures of integral thoughts; and then if no new poets should arise
to create afresh the associations which have become thus disorganized, language
will be dead to all the nobler purposes of human intercourse […]. In the
infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself
is poetry; and to be a poet is to apprehend the true and the beautiful, in a
word the good which exists in the relation, subsisting first between existence
and perception, and secondly between perception and expression.’ Best wishes,
William</span></div><div style="text-align:justify;line-height:17.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490250721555_18778"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/pkemmhk" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490250721555_18779"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490250721555_18780" lang="EN-GB">http://tinyurl.com/pkemmhk</span></a></div><div dir="ltr">
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