I’m worried about the people who censor us. Who protects THEM from dangerous information? Who keeps THEM safe from words? They are constantly subjected to misinformation. We need censors for the censors!

My above attempt to mock the censors carries an important point: Censors think of themselves as immune from the danger of bad words and ideas. How could that possibly be? I’m sure they believe that they are intellectual superior or else they wouldn’t risk their mental health and their LIVES to protect us. I suspect they don’t worry at all about workplace self-contamination. It’s much more likely that they laugh at what what they are paid to do: pretending to protect the rest of us. They think of us as rubes, as the hoi polloi. Just keep those paychecks coming! As Matt Taibbi recently stated in his Congressional testimony, they are part of the Censorship-Industrial Complex. They think they are super-smart, certainly smarter than the rest of us because they are being paid to be full of shit and anti-American.

The belief of censors that they are immune to the dangerous ideas they filter for us is a classic case of myopic, one-level reasoning. It is as bad as the traditional theologian “tennis without a net that many people have tried to jam down my throat my entire life. It goes like this:

Everything must have a cause.
The universe must have had a cause.
God caused the universe!

[At this point they are finished and they stare are you smugly]

Normal people should then speak up: “Hey, I thought your first premise is that EVERYTHING must have a cause, right? Who caused “God”?”

That’s when they claim that “God” doesn’t need to have a cause or some similar BS. Or they change the topic.

Censors who claim to be immune to the effects of dangerous words and cause-less causers are classic cases of motivated reasoning, social intuitionism, emotional security blankets dressed up in fancy words.