It's Not Disinformation; It's Fiction

Bunking it, debunking it, and rebunking it. That's no way to treat the internet.

Naomi Wolf is an unusual reader.

Within the span of 24 hours, Wolf posted on X that the fires in LA are a foreign invasion. A bombing campaign. A mass murder to conceal the dangers of Covid vaccines. Demonic weather manipulation. And a citywide carpet-bombing of mood stabilizers by a malignant force determined, evidently, to stabilize our moods.

This is somehow more than wrong. Other than wrong, not on the right-wrong axis.

For one, the tweet is mostly questions. They paint a vivid sci-fi picture of people in trances in the midst of fire. People not reacting normally to fire. Perhaps their moods have been forcibly stabilized—now you’re imagining that. A person horrified by the destruction of the LA fires who is also poisoned with lithium rained down on him by a malevolent force who hauls himself to therapy and just doesn’t act normal. It’s a movie.

And then there’s weather manipulation and “entrainment” of human “thought patterns” and we are there in history and must ask the questions.

But it’s all the fi in sci-fi. Has all symmetries. There are people in trances, a puzzled therapist, strange neuroscience, the beautiful and sometimes sinister word “waves.” It’s poetry—or a work of short fiction.

We are there in history and must ask the questions.