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Your latest editorial, Fake Panic by J.J, Mccullough, was fantastically refreshing in this day and age of internet opinions, me-tooism, and the general decline of thought. Fabulism is the new game in town.

Your latest editorial, Fake Panic by J.J, Mccullough, was fantastically refreshing in this day and age of internet opinions, me-tooism, and the general decline of thought.

Fabulism is the new game in town. Who knows what is true or false anymore in a cacophonous universe of cameras, conversation, and content, i.e. the internet?

As a retired librarian, I love his expression "mini-Gulf Tonkins of the mind," a politically crafted reference most would not intuitively feel. We are in a Brave New World of the "feelies", and Mccullough errs the same, when he confines this aspect of Canadian panic exclusively to the left or right political spectrum.

"Feelings first, facts second," according to biology . I'm not a fan of our playboy prime minister, his rather thin grasp of things and the empty words of inclusion and fabulistic values over deeds, but hey, those are the politicians we choose. Govt ---> inAction. It is the language we allow both left/right, the polite plastic words of politicians, not action or accomplishments, or even a simple plan.

Let's face it, words are cheaper than work. Real work like revising the tax code, updating the law, hell, even the payroll system. But hell, we can't even get clean water to aboriginal reserves, never mind let people communicate and build new territories. The highest communications costs in the world is a disgrace in a country our size.

How about implementing Paul Martin's vision to unite Canada through communications, assuring equal access to the benefits of technology? Marx talked about the "means of production" but it is the "means of communication" that allows the new economy. Education is a key, and critical think a must. How about some real work. "Where's the beef?" as that old lady said. I love a column that riles me up to the conclusion that all political stripes to drop the fake news, fake panic, fake talk.

So although I disagree with J.J. Mccullough 's politics perhaps, I congratulate him and the Citizen on a fine editorial. Your stock in trade is the written word, that's why I read newspapers and take the time to write.

Thank you.

Allan Wilson

Prince George