Reply To: The depths the empire goes, no one is allowed to think, or to say.
tl;dr: for most people, for sure.
This bit, “The only hope we have of ascertaining any truth is to first see the contradictions, logical fallacies, and absurdities…” reminds me of the film, ‘The Matrix’ the part where, ~ “we can only show them the door, they have to walk through it”.
A.k.a. horse, meets water.