Why do most people, especially Germans, trust the mainstream media? I think in part it’s that, to question the accepted narrative, you have to be an outsider of some sort – perhaps why so many in the Alt-Right and even -Lite are homosexual or, as in the case of Milo, homosexual and Jewish and married to a negro. And since Germanic peoples create orderly societies, pretty much the only disorder and violence in such nations due to 3rd-World migrants, most people trust the chaimstream narrative and have no real pressing urge to question whatever garbage they are fed by State-funded TV and newspapers.

Another reason occurred to me while reading David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. In one section, a 1970s journalist talks about the Watergate reporters in mythic and hallowed terms, as fearless crusaders against evil, instead of being most likely Mockingbird plants. Since everything we hear about the media, about journalists, comes from the media, it’s unsurprising people think of the newspapers as apolitical bastions of integrity and virtue, rather than Deep State propaganda organs. How exactly would people think about e.g. the Halifax Bank if they only heard about it through Halifax Bank press releases? If they had problems with internet banking, their credit, or with surly staff, they would think it must be only their problem, that everyone else is highly satisfied. And if they knew others in the same boat, they would probably think themselves a statistically meaningless outlier.

And so with the media. I was talking to some German automotive lawyers and they said every single article written about autonomous driving was full of basic errors, even in the most prestigious of publications; and yet they continued to believe everything else in the pages of Der Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. They were convinced Donald Trump was an ignorant and retarded buffoon despite him being a self-made billionaire and occupying the most powerful political office on the planet. For them, this could all be hand-waved away – for Der Spiegel told them that in America a moronic clown can easily become a billionaire and President – because, after all, America is not like Germany.

Germany, in short, is a good nation for men like Claas Relotius.