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The well established rule is that it takes 10 times the energy to debunk bullshit as to spew it. I don't think this rule has changed in thousands of years.
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That's a different rule. But I think you can speed that up since the internet, when used by critical thinkers, can allow one to spot bullshit near instantaneously.
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This is opposed to the voice of the Citizens United crowd: the sound of a voice should be commensurate with its commercial sponsorship?
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Citizens United is a bigger problem than any issue I have been discussing. It is a direct danger to the future of not only our democracy but our society. I've never once defended it. I'd drop all of my objections to the cancel phenomenon in exchange for seeing Citizens United overturned.
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I think youth is just kind of sick of all the bullshit needing to be countered. Maybe it's a good idea to suggest spreading bullshit shouldn't be quite so profitable?
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But they're not shutting down bullshit. The bullshit proliferates. They're engaging in petulant gotcha attacks and leveling absurd charges even against each other for being insufficiently supportive of their "social justice" religion.
They're taking out moderates who are skeptical of them. That's just dumb.
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After all, it's not really about the speech, if it were, people like those you cited (Greenwald Sullivan Harris et al. - what a group of groupthink morons!) would spend some time saying something intelligent and supporting it rather than honing their skills at spreading total bullshit that's also offensive enough to get attention for them and their sponsors? These asshats are just about the payday.
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You say that. But if you actually listen to them, they are thinking in line with Enlightenment values. The criticism that they're in it for $$$ is fallback because if you place their criticisms of the extremes of wokeness out there today and the cancel fixation, they win the debate. They are logical and rational. Greenwald is a bit of a zealot sometimes, I admit, but Harris is unflinchingly and calmly logical, thoughtful, and intellectually honest.
The clerisy of wokeness detests people like Harris because they have no adequate argument for the rigorous criticism he applies. They also can't slot him into a left/right binary because he's a liberal.
So what do they do? What they cheaply do to anyone who routinely and with minimal intellectual efforts shows the flaws in their religion: Call Him a Racist!
In his case, it's easy to make the charge. Ben Affleck, a Hollywood moron, made the case on Bill Maher years ago. He didn't listen to what Harris said, couldn't process it, let alone process it with an open mind, and so just shouted "Racist!" And now Harris, who is no more a racist than you or I are female, is, in the minds of the credulous masses who worship this new woke religion, a racist.
If you don't see this sort of thing as a sign the country is devolving into an idiocracy, you're blindered. The right is gone. They've gone full cuckoo pants loony. Forget them. But the left? Come on... they've at least tried historically to respect facts and logic over all else. To hear a person on the left say a people can have "their truths" instead of an objective truth is both incredibly depressing and mind boggling. Idiocy is idiocy. Worshiping this new social justice religion to the point of being intolerant isn't as overtly crazy as being into QAnon. But it's in the Crazy Bucket. And the Crazy Bucket is a bad place to be.
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