The narrative bombs
The narrative bombs More adventures in "why you should hate the media" el gato malo There is a point where a group of people come to inhabit such a powerfully unreal hallucination that it loses contact with baseline reality and becomes a desperately dangerous place in which to live. I want to show you somehting: Over the weekend, a small group of protesters seemingly led by (or at least in the company of) Jake Lang was at Gracie Mansion (home of the NYC mayor). the Jake Lang group was modest in size (12-20 based on reports) and the counter protesters who opposed this were considerably more numerous (100-125). Jake and co were protesting “Islamification” of New York, prayer in public places, and similar practices. the chant was seemingly “stop the islamic takeover of NYC.” the counter protesters countered with “run the nazis out of New York” etc and this was a fairly predictable and basically peacful affair. Honestly, if a couple of groups with differing viewpoints want to h...