While the “I saw a pregnant person last week!” is amusing, I rather thought that the main point wasn’t that she’s obviously and hilariously wrong, it’s that she immediately jumped from
- I don’t remember seeing any pregnant women recently
to
- There haven’t been any pregnant women recently
to
- There has been a conspiracy to hide the fact that we’re living in Children of Men now.
It’s possible to see her “Death recorded” mistake as a mistake, which drove her loopy and into the arms of the swivel-eyed far Right, but is it not also possible to read it as a sign that she was heading there already?
I mean, sure, it’s not a term most of us would ever have run into, but if you were writing a book on the technicalities of 19C English Law, why would you not at least ask an academic on the history of English Law?
It takes a certain amount of intellectual effort and rigour to do that sort of research, and I think it was becoming increasingly that she found it easier to just… not.
And now she’s found the people for whom gut feeling superseding research and inquiry is a virtue, not a failing.
It’s just that it turns out that when you stop checking your beliefs and random thoughts against reality every so often, there’s a tendency to disappear into the intellectual weeds, heading in the general direction of the horizon.
