1) In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a princess of the legendary city of Troy, and the most beautiful of King Priam’s daughters.

She was seduced by Apollo, who gave her the ability to predict the future.

2) When she refused herself to him, he cursed her by making people disbelieve her predictions.
3) So she went around knowing and predicting the future, telling people what was going to happen, but no one ever believed her.

She foresaw the fall of Troy, but couldn’t prevent it.
4) Cassandra is a figure both of sagacity and of tragedy, where her combination of deep understanding and powerlessness exemplify the paradoxical condition of mankind.
5) In her frightened, ego-less state, she may blurt out what she sees, perhaps with the unconscious hope that others might be able to make some sense of it.

But to them, her words sound meaningless, disconnected, and blown out of all proportion.
6) Cassandra has become the archetype for many prophetic characters who are either ignored or cannot be comprehended until after an unfortunate event has occurred.
7) The dilemma facing investors is that there are too many Cassandras’ who have been faithfully foretelling doom.
8) Their catastrophic predictions of “The Great Crash” or “The Big Reset” over the past decade were because of ideologically motivated cognition.

In a world full of ambiguity, we see what we want to see.
9) Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman has found that confidence in ones beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence, but of the coherence of the story that the mind constructs.
10) What should be important is that we are agnostic in our analysis, rather than ideological; and empirical, rather than dogmatic.
11) But as social psychologist Leon Festinger, observed, “people cognize and interpret information to fit what they already believe.”
12) The truth is, to quote @dylangrice, “The future is always uncertain, it is only the extent of our self-deception that changes over time.”

Be free of speculative prejudices.
13) Pessimism is seductive but do not believe in prophecies.

As Homer said, "Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed,."

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. THREAD 1/x

David Baddiel is getting lots of coverage and feedback on his book which again focuses on so called 'left wing' antisemitism.

I will start by saying that I have seen antisemitic comments made by Labour members and some genuine cases.

However, I have huge concerns.


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Let's look in detail at this article written in April 2019 in the @Guardian - and I will explain the concerns.

The areas highlighted guide you to believe this was all Labour - IT WASN'T.

It also occurred before 2015! Detail follows...

https://t.co/cK59FP83aG


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So as you see the writer of this rather deceitful piece starts with

"THAT CHANGED IN SEPTEMBER 2015" 🙄

This was done to point the timeframe as Corbyn's leadership. Yet the article goes on to describe things that are not even related to Labour, which occurred in 2014.


4/x

So... What in fact the @Guardian writer is discussing here is this case - where a group of Neo-Nazi's spent months inflicting abuse on Jewish MP Luciana Berger

All the detail is in the Court Notes when Bonehill-Paine was sentenced by the judge.

https://t.co/wAyo6Yro5Q


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The Justice sentencing remarks to Neo-Nazi explain the previous cases too. See the date 2014.

Yet the Guardian writer refers to this NON LABOUR case to effectively make her article a lie.

"Star of David" - this was Garron Helm another neo-Nazi..

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