I have trouble instantly coming up with examples. But a very good example of “Why is this information produced?” occurred to me.

We used to say that the fashion industry was run by queers. This was one of those Lowah Clahss remarks that was not true. Then came AIDS. The fashion makers were nearly wiped out.

Then, about twenty years ago, Barbara Walters started talking about “Why is it that gay men especially have such talent when it comes to designing?” If she had said that twenty years before, she would have been a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews. But after the AIDS epidemic, it was no longer a question about who were designers.

So the information manufactured had to be “Yes, gays ARE the fashion industry. So why are they so GIFTED?”

If you find white men dominating, the required discussion is how they are discriminating to keep out non-whites.

We all KNOW that. But I can’t even get BUGS people to THINK that way.

Ok, what would a consistently well-paid have said on the same subject in the 1960s, before AIDS?

I can tell you exactly. He would give a smirk and say “I know what the Lowah Class says about how it’s all queers in the fashion industry.”

Then he would announce that “They did a study and found that fashion has the lowest percentage of homosexuals of almost anything>“

I heard them say it!

Repeatedly!

But it is very frustrating that YOU don’t think that way. Instead of Mantra type insights I get too many lectures about how society works and names and stuff.

Another example. In the story of Doctor Jenner and vaccination, it always begins with “Everybody had long seen that cow milking maids didn’t get smallpox.”

Let me repeat that: “Everybody had long seen that cow milking maids didn’t get smallpox.”

Let me repeat that: “Everybody had long seen that cow milking maids didn’t get smallpox.”

George Washington was stricken sterile by the same smallpox that killed his brother. Academic medicine bled him to death when he got pneumonia.

A major portion of each generation was hideously marked by smallpox. Millions died of it.

And everybody knew that “Cow milking maids didn’t get smallpox.”

The did not know that people who read Galen could cure it. They didn’t know that a person who read Greek and could cast your astrological chart could cure it.

“Everybody had long seen that cow milking maids didn’t get smallpox.”

Could somebody PLEASE get off explaining The State of the World to me and tell me what is wrong in the sentences above?