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What if… What we fear is an indicator
of our dogmas?
Let us answer a couple of simple questions first:
Can someone always be wise? Hell no.
Do we all have dogmas? Hell yes.
Let’s review the definition of dogma: a set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. Accepted by members without questioning or doubting it.
So is a dogma a presupposition (or bias) on steroids?
What’s the difference between the person who watches Fox News and sees Trump talking about how the election is stolen, and then sees the texts from Murdochs and hosts saying, ‘No the election was not stolen’.
What’s a FOX viewer to think?
What fear(s) get triggered by such contradictions?
How do they determine what to believe: the golden calf leader that they’ve been hearing for ages whose dogma they thought had bought into all this time; OR the leaders of Fox News, (and many others based on the Jan 6 transcripts) who is saying the complete opposite of what the golden calf Trump had been preaching since 2020?
How are they going to reconcile these two differences from the same source, meaning Fox news?