Belabored day

It's been a while since the topic of Objective Reality made an appearance and since then a new term has entered the lexicon: deepfake.  I wonder if it's too late for OR (objective reality) and we are at a tipping point where we can never be absolutely sure of anything that we don't personally witness, and even then our perceptions may be incorrect.  If I  observe someone getting hit on the shoulder what did I just see?  Was there a blow struck in anger or was a poisonous insect knocked away?

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Studies have been done with non human animals which found that overcrowding causes them to get cranky and pick on each other, even when abundant food is provided.

Yes, but availability of food isn't everything.  These are caged animals, after all, hardly a good environment to study their behavior, which is why I suspect that over-population is a phony issue.  Mr. Beagles may be referring to Calhoun's study of behavior in his mouse utopia and the idea of a behavioral sink.  This is heady stuff; the mice had plenty of room but after a while many of them chose to crowd themselves together and started acting goofy.  Other mice withdrew to a remote spot and spent all their time grooming and eating.  In the end it all fell apart and they all died despite the availability of food, water, and ample living space.  I didn't follow up to see if research has gone any further on this and I am hesitant to make any conclusion except that mice can make bad decisions just like their humanoid cousins.

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Remember that George made his speech on the steps of Old Miss, a taxpayer funded school that would not allow Blacks to attend.

What speech was that?  His "segregation forever" speech was at his inauguration as governor in 1963.  He did, indeed, stand on the school steps but it was the University of Alabama and he finally did step aside, if my viewing of the news video wasn't part of the fake news.  I got the impression that Wallace had a big problem with the federal government and not black people but I could be mistaken.  Isn't this all old news and something we have moved beyond?

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Some topics of discussion have worn me out to the point where my mind is made up and unlikely to change.  If I fail to participate in a healthy give and take, so be it, but I think we are all being played for chumps and it's not the elected officials that are in charge.  The politicians are proxies and placeholders for the real powers that are hidden by PACs and offshore financing, and I need more tinfoil for my hat.  George Carlin was right.