An oversimplified process of the class struggle that has existed forever:
Person becomes rich. Enough people believe the myth that rich = smart. Smart means qualified to rule. Poor people finally figure out rich people don’t give a shit about them. Poor people start talking about the bad things unqualified leader did wrong. Bad leader does whatever it takes to cover up the sordid history.
At one time in the chain of edits the Musk page, for a brief period in time, in the opening paragraph labeled him as a conspiracy theorist. Twixter was a great platform for him to espouse his baseless claims, being in control of it he can do whatever he wants. But something like Wikipedia that resembles a form of unbiased journalism when it operates at its best isn’t as easy to memory hole.
Although we are in the late stages of global capitalism and the downside of wealth being concentrated in a very few people, memory holing doesn’t even seem to matter to most people. A simple, “I never said that”, seems good enough for most with their preconceived cognitively biased opinions. But still, they try. Getting rid of Wikipedia altogether would stop that unhappy problem of documentation of past lawsuits, baseless claims, outright lies and hypocritical contradictions. What I said two seconds ago is the truth. That’s all the research your search engine needs to find.
Similarly, archiving sites are a thorn in the side. Yes, actually yes you did just contradict yourself. And after the earlier days when it was kind of fun to spend some time the hypocrites while they backpedaled, of course processes to stop personally operated sites are now in place from being archived. The internet version of burning books. Putting in a properly coded robots.txt file thwarts archiving bots.
And finally, Hubbard seems to have given up on his love affair with his old site. Occasionally a video from his current bad news of the day livestream would reference the old blog, freetofindtruth.com. Encouraging that newbie to look at how just by math the occasional actual correct sports prediction or generic topic was legitimately referenced many years ago. Now in addition to being redirected to the new blog, all the archived material is gone. The Wayback bots going back nearly a decade can’t find anything but the current blog.
We’re now one step closer to grifters wearing T-shirts, displayed for purchase at their online store, that say
I NEVER SAID THAT
And people think that’s a good thing.
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