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A website about examining the stories we're supposed to believe

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This website is a “sandbox”, a place for me to experiment with words and ideas in an isolated environment.

Currently, it’s mostly about stories, as that is what I’m learning about.

I would like to be able to identify and examine the stories that I’m immersed in, and understand how they influence me.

I’m especially interested in the Brexit / Trump / populist Conservative assault on reality and the increase in blatant lies in UK/US politics.

I will use this website to organise, cross reference and share my notes on this theme.

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See also

Request for info: A link between growing inequality and increased pro-Elite political lobbying?

Elsewhere – when liars and their victims acknowledge the lies
Speaking the unspoken, saying the quiet part out-loud, breaking the spell…

Pro-Trump lawyer says ‘no reasonable person’ would believe her election lies

InfoWars’ Alex Jones is a ‘performance artist playing a character’, says his lawyer

Capitol riot suspect says he is “a victim of numerous conspiracy theories that were being fed to him over the internet by a number of very clever people, who were uniquely equipped with slight, if any, moral or social consciousness.”

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