We are going to nitpick our way to oblivion.
Elite lawyer brain tells you not to believe your lying eyes.
So. The government threatened a comedian's network because they didn't like what he said. That is a thing that happened. There's a whole lot of people who had visceral reaction against this kind of heavy-handed government intervention based on what someone said on television. That also happened.
So, lo, as if from the heavens, comes a constitutional scholar™ to tell you to ignore what your own brain is telling you about government overstepping. Well actually, this isn't a violation of Kimmel's First Amendment rights. Well actually, it might maybe be a violation of ABC's rights. Well actually, nothing to see here, just move along and keep doomscrolling.
We're now on a path where our experts debate inconsequential technical details to avoid the broader picture of what's actually happening.
Elite lawyer brain is notorious for making a series of arguable logical steps between facts and ending up at a conclusion that's indefensible in the real world. Being an expert is one thing. Falling in love with your own expertise and clever thinking is foolishness. But it doesn’t stop there.
RFK Jr. likes healthy diets. Cool. He's also an anti-science nut who's going to make preventable disease great again. People don't even remember kids in iron lungs.
The "well actually" crowd, the "do your own research" influencers, and the edgelord online provocateurs - this is what passes for being smart in our current decadent age.
I don’t have an answer, this is just a rant. But I am positive that taking comfort in the trappings of normal life while that normal life crumbles around you is not going to help.