[Press2forEN]

There seems to be this hopeful belief out there that if only indisputably correct information was available to the general public, at long last they would finally support the correct policies and elect the correct leaders.

I think that is a false premise.

[troughway]

And yet even on HN this is disputed with such frequency as to warrant raising eyebrows as to what kind of mess we're walking into.

Book burners are with us today, and they're embedded within the "cancel culture" and every online upvote/downvote system.