Walter Kirn: We Are Headed to the Era of Post-Truth

Walter Kirn:

Find something, anything, to be fundamentalist about, ideally something very, very old, because there will be no truth out there soon, none, just an endlessly shifting, windy phantasmagoria. So find a mast and lash yourself to it. Heck, even classical herbalism will do.

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NPR Forgets Important Facts Regarding Michael Brown

NPR reports the "News."

Grok Offers this description of an excellent documentary I viewed: "What Killed Michael Brown?" Well worth watching:

What Killed Michael Brown? (2020), written and narrated by Shelby Steele and directed by his son, Eli Steele. Below is an overview based on available information:

Overview

What Killed Michael Brown? is a 1-hour, 49-minute documentary that explores the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, by white police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. The incident sparked nationwide protests and became a pivotal moment for the Black Lives Matter movement. The film challenges mainstream narratives about the event, particularly the "hands up, don’t shoot" slogan, which it argues is a "poetic truth" not grounded in evidence. Instead, it presents a perspective rooted in Shelby Steele’s conservative viewpoint, emphasizing personal responsibility and questioning systemic racism as the sole explanation for Brown’s death. Key Details

* Director: Eli Steele

* Writer/Narrator: Shelby Steele, a Hoover Institution fellow and noted conservative author who argues that systemic racism is more a strategy than a truth.

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