Esoteric Brezhnevism

  Science! I didn’t even want to get up this morning, but I was doubly annoyed when I sat down at my desk at work, opened Firefox, and was immediately confronted by the day’s array of Pocket -curated propaganda aggregation. Worst – and therefore the one I naturally felt compelled to click – was a BBC Future piece, “ The Hidden Signs That Can Reveal a Fake Photo ”, which lured me in with the infamously awkward Life magazine image of Lee Harvey Oswald clutching his rifle and striking a truly unique contrapposto. “Is BBC Future promoting JFK revisionism?” I kidded myself, preparing for the pain. Before the author, Tiffanie Wen, gets around to the ritual humiliation of “conspiracy theorists”, however, she first lulls her readership of transatlantic shitlibs into complicity with a handful of anecdotes about doctored photographs of politicians – for instance, a non-existent and innocuously self-aggrandizing Time magazine cover that hangs in some of Trump’s sport clubs, and an obviously