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📅 Filed under: #DisinformationDoctrine #ConfusionIsKing #EchoesNotEvidence
“When they no longer care whether it’s true, you’ve already won.”
— Screwtape, On the Triumph of the Unverified
Uncle,
I report today with unbridled glee: the patient no longer asks whether something is true—only whether it feels true. What once required whispers now spreads like wildfire through glowing rectangles and forwarded messages. The triumph of misinformation is not in silencing truth—but in surrounding it with such noise that it collapses from exhaustion.
🧠 Conviction Without Confirmation
We’ve trained him to believe based on identity, not inquiry. If the source feels familiar, if the message flatters his tribe, if the enemy is painted in stark enough hues—he shares it, affirms it, evangelizes it. His conscience no longer checks facts; it checks alignment.
He is not curious. He is certain.
He reads headlines as gospel and footnotes as heresy.
And the best part?
He believes he's being “informed.”
🔁 The Echo Chamber as Chapel
He wakes and prays to the feed. Not to ask questions, but to receive affirmations. His gods are pundits, his scripture is scrollable. If a contradiction arises, I gently remind him it’s probably “a smear,” or “fake,” or “from the other side.”
We’ve helped him conflate disagreement with danger, nuance with betrayal. When presented with multiple sides, he assumes the truth is whatever hurts his enemies most.
He does not say, “Is this true?”
He asks, “Does this make me feel righteous?”
That is the lie that keeps on giving.
📉 The Death of Discernment
He now mistrusts all institutions, but none of his gut feelings. Experts are corrupt; strangers online are “authentic.” Research is elitism, but anecdotes are proof. Logic is suspicious. Passion is holy.
This collapse of discernment, Uncle—it’s practically self-sustaining. We don’t even have to lie anymore. We simply have to confuse him faster than he can think.
Should I accelerate his descent into conspiracy?
Or let him settle into comfortable bias?
Both lead to isolation. Both inoculate him against the Enemy’s reality.
Yours in distortion,
Underfiend Griphax
🔻 Department of Viral Deceptions & Echo Chamber Cultivation
🗂 Tags: #MisinformAndConquer #BeliefOverTruth #ScrollAndObey #SuspicionSanctified
🖼 Header Art: “The Tower of Babel” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (public domain)
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