Don't believe things just because you want to believe them

Years ago I was given a book called The TV Book for Christmas. Across the bottom of the pages was a pictorial time line of the history of television. The top part of the pages had a collection of essays on a number of things about television. One essay was about what is generally referred to as "canned laughter." That essay was written by someone who had worked in the production of situation comedies. 

Perhaps you remember years ago when a sitcom would have a scene that would go something like this:

Honey, I'm home. (Laughter)

Hello, Dear. (Giggles)

What's for dinner? (Guffaws)

Don't you remember? We're going to the Smith's tonight. (Chuckles)

I'm sorry, I forgot. (Roars of laughter)

The author of the essay told of one time he was working with the producer of a situation comedy. The producer told the author to insert some laughter after a line. 

"It wasn't funny." 

"Do it anyway." 

A couple of weeks later as the two were reviewing the finished program, that scene played. After the line, the author and the producer heard the rip-roaring laughter that the producer wanted to be added. 

"I told you it was funny." 

We now see much of the same line of thinking, but it is not funny. 

Even though there was a Special Prosecutor who testified that he found nothing, people still swear that there is 100% proof that President Trump committed treason by colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. 

Even after seeing the videos -- if they bothered to see them -- from that August night in 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, people are screaming about how a corrupt justice system allowed a mass murderer go free. 

There are people who say that the reason the price of energy has skyrocketed has nothing to do with policies of President Biden such as shutting down pipelines and energy exploration, but rather because Oil Companies are taking this opportunity to gouge Americans. Meanwhile, many of these same people demand that all Americans submit to being jabbed with an experimental substance about whose negative effects are being effectively hidden while Big Pharma is making a killing, both figuratively and literally.

A large part of this behavior may be based on gas-lighting. Many people outside the circles of power may actually believe the fallacies mentioned above. Many people in the circles of power may actually believe the fallacies mentioned above. With those people, however, they are like that producer who was lulled into believing the line in that sitcom was funny because of the artificial support he, himself, added.

Much of what those in power, whom I have previously called "Cesspoolians," believe is based upon what their allies in the media are saying. Just as social media sites are selective as to what their "fact checkers" check, there is little truth in what is allowed to be stated publicly. The Cesspoolians are believing their own lies. 

They do this at their own peril.