I've already discussed in full the weaknesses of social media [1] and how I left Twitter. One thing I didn't get into is how it does seem like a high school clique in many ways. One can only preach to the choir and also one needs to be quick and say witty things to the choir. Brevity is the soul of the wit, some say, but I sense that twitter essentially disproves part of that.
So when Alice Walker (go ahead and read her blog, the latest is a letter from someone in Israel about her poem on the Talmud) was called out as an anti-semite by Roxane Gay, something that seemed off to me. After all, I was pretty sure i had just heard Norman Finkelstein mention her casually as someone he hung out with. But here came the storm and the mob called her an anti-semite and that's it.
Asking questions, as I did, was met with ridicule.
The Alice Walker bit I'm going to research because it all comes down to David Icke and the fact that he's an anti-semite. But the thing is, this is thrown around enough (I was essentially called that when I raised doubts about Israel's shooting of unarmed protesters in Gaza) that I wonder about it. I have yet to step into Icke's works.
But I want to just to research it and the idea behind lizard people [3] which is crazy enough that some people believe it and cut down their brothers for it. Yes go ahead and read that. So is David Icke part and parcel into that?
I don't know.
But I sense I've avoided many conspiracy theories to my own detriment as a writer. Even the 9-11 truthers I merely took as crazy.
Not to say a worldview doesn't matter as a heuristic to apply (in the battle of the powerful vs the powerless take the side of the powerless is a good one), but one needs to read what's becoming reality even if it's happening through a kind of madness.
I sense that, like Borges, what was unreal is real by nature of the powers that push a lie and the people who will flock to it.
That's a little tangential, I know, so let's focus, instead on this claim of David Icke and Alice Walker and the world around us. I'm doing more reading and shall continue to do so.
[1] While allowing that it has done good in letting groups like BLM gather steam, though I do wonder how much of that is true, how much is social media doing good propaganda, as they must want to do because, well you know $$. Even today most people don't know how many accounts are fake and how many are not. That being said, even in small town Spokane there were large meetings of occupy activists and BLM activists looking for social justice and none of that needed a Twitter account (though some of the groups had facebook, so that's not to say it's worthless).
[2] Now, I read some Brodsky (who you should read as well) and it was a little telling that he mentions a strong force against evil, the kind we face today, is being eccentric. There is no room to be eccentric on social media.
[3] What I've heard so far is that Icke is not and anti-semite because he talks about lizard people which includes the likes of the Rothschilds and the Queen of England and the Bushes, while others are saying that mentioning the Rothschilds is indicative of anti-semitism. Again, I assume this is all different from the current fight against Corbyn with regard to the
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