Michael Malice

you're gonna look at everything I say after that with an enormous grain of salt.

So that is another big asymmetry in favor of truth.

If someone trusts you, you have to be honest all the time and you're gonna make mistakes.

You can own those mistakes and be like, hey, this is why I made the mistake.

This is why I said such and such.

It makes me nervous because there's also like- If someone is a liar, that doesn't mean literally everything they say is a lie.

Sure, but I think establishment ideas are powerful whether they're true or not.

I have that line that you're supposed to take one red pill, not the whole bottle.

I am certainly one of those people who is of the idea that they are dishonest far more often than they're honest.

That said, there are people who are of the belief, to use an extreme example, that Trump is still the shadow president and there's going to be these QAnon mass arrests.

I thought this was something that the Daily Beast made up to make fun of MAGA, but I was just on the phone with my buddy last night and he was like, no, no, if you go to Troth Central, they're all over there.

And if you disagree with them, they call you controlled opposition or a grifter or so on and so forth.

Is that unfortunate or where?

I think for the last two years, especially vis-a-vis COVID, the overwhelming message was the experts know what they're talking about.

And if you are questioning this, you're a vax denier and you basically should be read out of polite society.

And one obvious counterexample to this was social distancing.

If social distancing was efficacious, why were there no attempts ever to bring it back, right, when you had different waves?

And if it wasn't efficacious, why was it so insistent that we do it, all do it, at the very beginning?

In fact, in many places, you'll still see the signs on the floor where it's six feet apart.

So there's an incongruity there, and I think we are forgetting, as a people, the intensity