It really is. Its the 1984 boot-on-face forever image. Terrorize people intermittently, randomly with nonsensical edicts . Try to make them accept things that are patently false and useless like masking, vaccinating children under the pretext of their safety. Have the people in here ever read Vaclav Havels the power of the powerless? Its very worthwhile
It really is. Its the 1984 boot-on-face forever image. Terrorize people intermittently, randomly with nonsensical edicts . Try to make them accept things that are patently false and useless like masking, vaccinating children under the pretext of their safety. Have the people in here ever read Vaclav Havels the power of the powerless? Its very worthwhile
Not your drafts no. im 54 , i grew up in an orthodox jewish home and i was sensitized to these issues at an early age. Since 2001 and the patriot act the US and the west has been in a downward spiral of authoritarianism. Ive been horrified and disgusted. But never as much as ive been over the last 18 months. Murray rothbard et al always maintained that states were the greatest threat to human survival and he was completely correct
Thomas sowell in his 2009 тАЬintellectuals and societyтАЭ, distinguished between intelligent people (intellectuals ) who produce products , provide services and solve problems and intellectuals who just peddle ideas. The latter promote ideas for which they are never held accountable, which are not based on logic, evidence and disciplined analysis. These latter intellectuals ideas are filled with arrogance, self congratulation and narcissism. So on the one hand we have a man like elon musk who is launching satellites and then we have a huskster like Ibrhim X kendi and CRT.
Orwell said that some ideas are so preposterous that only intellectuals would believe them
The problem is that the state and tax
Money is being used to subsidize a whole cadre of intellectuals who produce nothing useful or meaningful for society
All the universities have gender studies depts and students can get guaranteed student loans to attend these institutitons and get degrees in useless fields
The answer : no tax payer funding of education at any level
We have state subsidized bad ideas being created by the largely nationalized and socialized higher educational establishment. We have an entire cadre of Midwid so-called intellectuals who are studying things like gender studies at mid rate and third tier colleges . These people are getting Federally guaranteed student loans to study this nonsense. On some level many of these people realize that they have no prospects to ever really make a name for themselves and so in order to distinguish themselves they have to become ever more radical and lunatic and fringe in the way they present their ideas. These ideas do tremendous damage to our culture when they diffuse into the general population and get picked up by politicians. ItтАЩs similar to the way Keynesianism got picked up by the politicians in the first half of the 20th century. Keynesianism gave politicians an excuse to destroy their own currencies in the name of тАЬprogressтАЭ When really it was just the financial equivalent of witchdoctoring.
For two years I have been urging people to read (or re-read) Orwell's 1984. "Yeah, yeah," they'll say, "I suppose I should" - but they don't. Repeatedly, a phrase uttered by Thomas a Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral comes to mind: "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." Indeed.
Nations are awash in good folks who believe if they just ignore it or weather the storm, it will go away. Why? Because they truly believe no government or government leader is that evil. And does that not point to the fact we have, in the main, reached full Post-Christian status (at least in North America and Europe): If a person does not believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent God, how can they embrace the reality of the despicable demonic?
It really is. Its the 1984 boot-on-face forever image. Terrorize people intermittently, randomly with nonsensical edicts . Try to make them accept things that are patently false and useless like masking, vaccinating children under the pretext of their safety. Have the people in here ever read Vaclav Havels the power of the powerless? Its very worthwhile
Are you reading my drafts doc? I quote Havel in a piece coming later this week. Great book.
Not your drafts no. im 54 , i grew up in an orthodox jewish home and i was sensitized to these issues at an early age. Since 2001 and the patriot act the US and the west has been in a downward spiral of authoritarianism. Ive been horrified and disgusted. But never as much as ive been over the last 18 months. Murray rothbard et al always maintained that states were the greatest threat to human survival and he was completely correct
Thomas sowell in his 2009 тАЬintellectuals and societyтАЭ, distinguished between intelligent people (intellectuals ) who produce products , provide services and solve problems and intellectuals who just peddle ideas. The latter promote ideas for which they are never held accountable, which are not based on logic, evidence and disciplined analysis. These latter intellectuals ideas are filled with arrogance, self congratulation and narcissism. So on the one hand we have a man like elon musk who is launching satellites and then we have a huskster like Ibrhim X kendi and CRT.
Orwell said that some ideas are so preposterous that only intellectuals would believe them
The problem is that the state and tax
Money is being used to subsidize a whole cadre of intellectuals who produce nothing useful or meaningful for society
All the universities have gender studies depts and students can get guaranteed student loans to attend these institutitons and get degrees in useless fields
The answer : no tax payer funding of education at any level
Separation of education and state
We have state subsidized bad ideas being created by the largely nationalized and socialized higher educational establishment. We have an entire cadre of Midwid so-called intellectuals who are studying things like gender studies at mid rate and third tier colleges . These people are getting Federally guaranteed student loans to study this nonsense. On some level many of these people realize that they have no prospects to ever really make a name for themselves and so in order to distinguish themselves they have to become ever more radical and lunatic and fringe in the way they present their ideas. These ideas do tremendous damage to our culture when they diffuse into the general population and get picked up by politicians. ItтАЩs similar to the way Keynesianism got picked up by the politicians in the first half of the 20th century. Keynesianism gave politicians an excuse to destroy their own currencies in the name of тАЬprogressтАЭ When really it was just the financial equivalent of witchdoctoring.
For two years I have been urging people to read (or re-read) Orwell's 1984. "Yeah, yeah," they'll say, "I suppose I should" - but they don't. Repeatedly, a phrase uttered by Thomas a Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral comes to mind: "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." Indeed.
Nations are awash in good folks who believe if they just ignore it or weather the storm, it will go away. Why? Because they truly believe no government or government leader is that evil. And does that not point to the fact we have, in the main, reached full Post-Christian status (at least in North America and Europe): If a person does not believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent God, how can they embrace the reality of the despicable demonic?