Never Google

Longer post coming, but a brief note about searching for things on the Internet.

Camille Paglia has talked often and plainly about her view that the emergence of widespread and performative gender confusion is a sign of a historical end stage. Google is pretty sure that’s not a real thing, and would you like a page on…foley catheters? There’s a grand total of one indirect sort-of result, a thing you can click on that will move you toward the thing you want, but you won’t just find the thing you want.

It looks like there aren’t any great matches for your search! Seems like you’ve had a little too much to think, soldier.

Weirdly, Duck Duck Go is even less helpful:

But Bing promptly coughs up a link at the top to Paglia discussing that argument, with more good results right behind it:

Don’t ever Google. It’s there to make sure you don’t go around thinking the wrong thing. It’s an anti-search machine. Weirdly, the degree of mind control shifts over time. A few weeks ago, a search for “people who regret taking the covid vaccine” only produced links to stories about people who regretted not taking the thing, directing your mind to the information that all good cadre feel joy and unity of purpose in improving their bodies with glorious mRNA injections; today, Google actually allows you to discover in your search results that there are people who regret getting it. Would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall as Google managers discuss what you’re allowed to find.

Anyway, don’t.