Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur [Stoat]

(Before It's News)

I have a said a number of times¹ – to no great applause it must be said – that those who are “fooled” by the denialists and faux news and so on are mostly fooled because they are entirely happy to be fooled.

But now it turns out that I was definitely right, because there is a latin tag, Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur to express the same thing. Or more pithily, simply Mundus vult decipi.

I don’t think I’ve had a post as short as this for ages. Refreshing, isn’t it?

Notes

1. Although as it happens I can’t find many examples. Here is one.

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