Canada, on the "world stage" again.
If we let them get away with forcing us to renounce heresy, they'll be criminalizing Zionism next. You just watch.
Almost back to normal.
A big thanks to Real Story subscribers for putting up with the irregular appearances of this newsletter lately. I’ve been away from the National Post for something like six weeks already. I expect to be back in that saddle imminently.
Last Friday I ran through the edits on a 6,000-word investigative project that I hope will see the light of day soon. A second side project I’ve been cobbling together is just about locked and loaded.
Thanks again for your patience.
Busy schedule for Dear Leader this week
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is at the United Nations in New York, where he will attend several Very Important Meetings associated with the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future, including an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert along with American celebrity drag queen RuPaul.
Okay, okay. I’m being a bit cheeky there. To business. Still in the Big Apple though.
I see what you’re doing there, New York Times.
I’ll spare newsletter subscribers a boring disquisition on epistemology and just note that from the outset the Real Story has been particularly concerned with the collapse across the Anglosphere in the ways we go about the business of determining what constitutes the truth.
I’m old school about this, in that I remain convinced that the rigorous and impartial assessment of truth claims is a fundamental, civilizational necessity. It’s crucial to social cohesion, scientific literacy and rational politics, for starters. What has concerned me a great deal in the business of government and the media in recent years is the rapid replacement of what we are allowed to know with what we are instructed to believe.
This explains my preoccupation with the way “mainstream journalism” has let down the side quite terribly in its duty to distinguish fact from fiction and genuine news from propaganda. We’ve all found ourselves adrift in the post-truth era, and my observation is that the legacy media has done a lousy job of providing anything like a compass, or bearings, or charts.
Americans have been terribly afflicted, as in: In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. Here’s a piece I wrote about Trumpism six years ago: How 'post-truth' left-wingers created the very presidency they hate.
In Canada, it’s got so that the whole country can end up crashing on the rocks of a national psychotic episode, as in: The year of the graves: How the world’s media got it wrong on residential school graves. Canada has not recovered from that one.
The way I’ve put it: It’s not just that truth doesn’t seem to matter anymore, it’s that it doesn’t seem to matter that the truth doesn’t matter anymore.
As we see, again, from the headlines.