15/04/2014
Following his
thoughtful piece on the "Brexit prize",
The Boiling Frog is carrying out a lonely campaign, seeking to get the IEA to publish the remaining eleven of the 17 finalists' submissions, so that we can properly analyse the results.
I reckon he could do with a little help on twitter, with tweets calling to "free the Brexit 11", with the message: "published or be dammed, or somesuch. To maximise their effect, tweets might be copied to @iealondon with the hashtag #brexitprize, and
this link.
Something is certainly needed to counter
this stupidity where Alan Murad, Acting Campaign Manager of
Get Britain Out, has decided that Iain Mansfield has been "silenced", even though this is not the case.
We have an interesting social phenomenon here, where Murad reports the "silencing" because that is what he wants to believe, then allowing his belief to transcend fact. This has some implications for the way news in now disseminated, when belief systems are competing with hard fact, and in some cases gaining greater traction.
It is ironic, though, that Murad, who is quick to leap on any examples of EU propaganda that he can find, should be just as willing to promote his own propaganda, to spread the messages in which he chooses to believe. As scary is the number of people prepared to believe what they want to hear.
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