There is a traditional Chinese curse that goes: May you live in interesting times. The interesting times are the ones historians study, but they are not the ones that are pleasant to live through. When I look out at how the world has gone mad, how a time traveler going back even merely ten years would not be believed if he described our world today, I occasionally stop to contemplate what this period will seem like to the citizens of Tomorrow.
If you are old enough, you'll remember 60 minutes and other investigative reports exposing pharmaceutical company malfeasance, or error. Do you remember the expose in the 80s of Dr. Fauci's crimes? I do.
Do you remember where they all went?
In the Forgotten Side of Medicine, I learned that Mr. Clinton, while President, allowed the pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products. Fast-forward to now, and well, no more challenges in the press. I've read that congresscritters and bureaucrats are cheap, and D.A.s do not cost much either.
"They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived."
That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis.
> In Soviet Russia, at least everyone knew that Pravda was a government-run propaganda outlet.
In Soviet Russia even if one did, it wasn't safe to openly say so.
If you are old enough, you'll remember 60 minutes and other investigative reports exposing pharmaceutical company malfeasance, or error. Do you remember the expose in the 80s of Dr. Fauci's crimes? I do.
Do you remember where they all went?
In the Forgotten Side of Medicine, I learned that Mr. Clinton, while President, allowed the pharmaceutical companies to advertise their products. Fast-forward to now, and well, no more challenges in the press. I've read that congresscritters and bureaucrats are cheap, and D.A.s do not cost much either.
And yet, to paraphrase Mrs. Hoyt, in the end we've won, they've lost. And may well be losing as we write: https://wilderwealthywise.com/winning-starts-with-belief-that-winning-is-possible/