Freaking Myself Out

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This is technically analysis, but far too silly to post to midint.

Recently a poll was released which indicated that 1/3 of Americans believe that we have found WMDs in Iraq, and a bit under 1/4 believe that the Iraqis used WMDs during the war. This poll got suspiciously little coverage and I really should have posted about it before.

Today I was pondering these results while doing dishes, and I realized something rather disturbing. To think that WMDs have been found or were used puts you in an fundamentally different reality than the one I live in. There is just no way to reconcile my reality with one were any sane, minimally informed person could believe such things. It would take an active effort to phase-shift into this alternate reality. A reality completely shaped by the desires of suits, shadowy figures who want to use the people in their thrall to increase their own power. In short, 1/3 of America took the blue pill. They woke up in their bed and believed whatever they wanted to believe.

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I was talking to The Girl about this today, since if anything she's even more upset about this. She mentioned that at work she'd been talking about this and people were saying "well, didn't the papers say they discovered a lab that could be used for making chemical and biologic weapons?" Which of course they did -- if you went to any university anywhere you could do the same -- and from that to assuming "they WERE" is a very short mental step, pushed along by the Administration and not (yet) debunked or even discussed much in the mass media, to my knowledge.