Deny the reality of your own eyes and experiences

There is really nothing new under the sun.

The key to bamboozling the peasants and rubes is to get them to deny the validity of their own eyes and experiences.

My gut feel is that the last of the sheep are now being chivvied into the slaughter house.

Consider that four-time, criminal-sexual offenders are being whacked with a misdemeanor and sentenced to probation and court costs in many jurisdictions.

Meanwhile, people who forget a New Yorker's honorific-of-the-moment is subject to a $25,000 fine.

We truly live in a parallel universe when non-consensual sex, which potentially exposes the recipient to Herpes, HIV, Chlamydia, Syphilis, Gonorrhea and HPV, is treated more lightly than exposing somebody's feelings to reality.

As Voltaire suggested at the end of Candide...First we must tend our own gardens.  That is where you will find me.