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What if the inventor of umbrella wanted to call it "brella" but he hesitated?🤔

Someone flying from South Africa, Denmark, and Switzerland to Zimbabwe to get treatment? 🤣🤣🤣 Someone please pass whatever the good doctor is smoking to King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, it must be premium grade. One of my journalism lecturers who taught me at City University in London is the legendary Reuters global correspondent, Colin Bickler. He taught us that for propaganda to be effective, it must first be believable. Propaganda is not built on outright lies. It is a calculated mixture of truth blended with spin, facts selectively framed to push a narrative rather than fabrications conjured from thin air. That is why the most dangerous propaganda is the one that carries elements of truth, because it disarms the audience and lowers their scepticism. When propaganda abandons credibility and descends into obvious falsehoods, it stops persuading and starts embarrassing those who peddle it. Yoh, my people embarrass me. In media studies, communications theory, and political science, propaganda is widely understood not simply as lies, but as strategic messaging designed to influence perception and behaviour. Effective propaganda works best when it is anchored in recognisable reality. Based on that principle, how do you convince a South African that there are South Africans going to Zimbabwe to seek treatment when 70% of women giving birth at Musina Hospital in Limpopo are from Zimbabwe? How do you convince any global citizen that there are people coming from Denmark and Switzerland to get treatment in Zimbabwe when 2,500 women die every year while giving birth in Zimbabwe because the biggest hospital only has one maternity theatre? How do you convince people in Zambia that there are indeed Zambians who are coming to Zimbabwe to seek treatment when the whole of Mashonaland West goes to seek treatment in Zambia for serious ailments because even Kariba, the premier tourism asset in that part of the country, has no X-ray machine? Yoh, let us not allow ourselves to ridicule the country like this, where people like this Doctor say this kind of nonsense and the biggest newspaper in Zimbabwe publishes it. Are these people coming for pethidine fixes due to addictions? We might never know!

EPSTEIN: “One of the bad things to teach children is how to write…writing forces you into a very narrow channel of thinking.” “Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle…never wrote anything. They spoke, and people around who could write wrote. Socrates could think.” Epstein was asked about Jesus of Nazareth in the same context, someone who spoke while others recorded his words. Epstein responded with this answer before oddly thanking Steve Bannon at the end.