Flooding discourse with dishonesty can displace censorship as a control tool

Evidence

Who needs censorship when the truth can be buried under a pile of bullshit? And isn’t this precisely what the issue of post-truth is all about: That truth does not matter as much as feelings? That we can’t even tell anymore what is true and what is not? — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 227

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit and the general bullshit-as-control-of-information theme; also pairs with the Alfred Döblin observation about bullshit piling up out of powerlessness. — connects to: Internalized self-censorship enforces conformity more effectively than state propaganda — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 166; High authoritarians censor their prejudiced answers when not anonymous — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3915
• DEFINE: Bulls-in-a-china-shop phrasing that defines the post-truth condition as truth being buried rather than directly suppressed.

Broader Connections

• High authoritarians censor their prejudiced answers when not anonymous #qualifies (0.75) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3915
• Internalized self-censorship enforces conformity more effectively than state propaganda #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 166