Fiquei tentado a simplesmente citar:
"One danger of trying to outlaw ‘fake news’ is that mistaken views have a habit of turning out to be true"
No entanto, acabei por acrescentar mais un pozinhos:
"Foster Wallace's point is that even the most intelligent among us are immersed in delusions we struggle to perceive and which future generations will regard as primitive or downright false. This is baked into the human condition and articulates why free speech is so precious. For while there will always be a lot of nonsense spouted when the spigots are opened up, it is the only way for us to perceive the blinkers that afflict us all. To use a metaphor of which Foster Wallace might have approved: free speech helps to grow the tree of knowledge. And while censorship can prune the rotten branches, it condemns the overall structure to non-growth, which is the greatest poison of all.
This is also why heretics and mavericks are so crucial to progress. I don't just mean people like Galileo but more everyday examples. Sometimes, you see, a rogue doctor will be right about the dangerous side effects of a vaccine. Sometimes, a journalist will be right that a drug is causing birth defects.
Sometimes, a whistleblower will be right when claiming a pandemic was unleashed by a lab leak. And sometimes an outsider will be right when saying that progressives - who often wish to censor others — are themselves enmeshed in a gigantic delusion. Indeed, a good contemporary example is the pseudoscience of critical race theory, which has ensnared so much of the radical left, including the Sussexes."
Trechos retirados de "Censors enforce orthodoxy the problem is we need heretics too"
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