It’s
always distasteful watching Hollywood celebrities like Meryl Streep stand
before a room full of their showbiz cohorts at one of those lavish “Dig Me”
parties, and harp to the cameras about how mistreated they are, how
misunderstood they are, how vilified they are, and yes, how McCarthyite their
detractors in flyover country are for daring to call them out on their empty
virtue signaling and self-promoting social justice screeds. To see them cry
crocodile tears to a room full of their pampered, fellow-travelling social
justice cheerleaders—who, not coincidentally, agree with their politics and
social justice platforms at a rate of 99.9%--and then have the audacity to
proclaim how BRAVE they are for regurgitating boilerplate platitudes to a room
full of people who think exactly as they do…well, inmy opinion you’d have to tune in to the The
View to witness ruminations as childish and bankrupt.
If you would be interested
in witnessing a public speech which is both TRULY brave and delivered with
understated elegance, may I suggest to you this speech by Stefan Molyneux,
given before members of the European Union Parliament. To stand before such a
powerful body (who most undoubtedly differ wildly from him in their outlooks)
and rain on their parade in such a clear and unequivocal voice…now THAT is
bravery. It’s a magnificent presentation, and drives home his point—with utmost
clarity, thoughtful insight, and hard data—that big tech censorship is anathema
to a supposedly free state or union. To call yourself a democracy, whilst at
the same time penalizing and silencing every contrary voice and opinion, is
sophistry of a most damnable order. They may be fooling some, but, as Stefan
most articulately points out, they aren’t fooling everyone. There is a large and
growing segment of the population that has become wise to their totalitarian
machinations. These companies have come to believe that they can get away with this
partisan censorship—and perhaps they will—because they are on the side of the
gods of progressivism. But we now know—in large part because of the alternative
media, which big tech does their best to silence for self-serving and painfully
obvious reasons—what they are up to. We know how they are sparing no expense to
propagandize and indoctrinate us into their belief systems, and although they
are reaping their fair share of victories, they will lose in the end—not because
we will outfight or outlast them—but because their ideas are selfish, covetous
and perennially calamitous in the extreme, and an awake population is a population
which will no longer swallow force-fed tyranny.
We Americans sure like our freedom--or at least we talk a good game. The topic is addressed with some regularity in the news media, and makes frequent appearances on television shows and in the movies. It is even cropping up more and more often in casual conversation as we opine, thrust and parry with our friends and neighbors about the latest real and/or imagined usurpations of our rights by an ever-expanding federal government leviathan and its more petite state and local siblings. Although governmental kneecapping of its citizens has always been--and will always be--a valid and fertile point of discussion amongst concerned citizens, I was thinking of addressing here a somewhat overlooked and seldom enunciated dimension of the whole "freedom" discussion. Our default connotation of freedom is now and has forever been positive. We in this country have always bestowed upon the term the utmost reverence and respect. It is sacrosanct--and not without reason. So many o...
Noogies for Naughty Nationalists Our Current and Convenient Bogeyman I just received the new Foreign Affairs magazine in the mail a few days ago. For those of you who might not know, Foreign Affairs is the signature publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, one of the world's premier semi-secret societies (think Bohemian Grove minus the citronella candles and KY Jelly), where political elites from around the globe confab about issues of the day, formulate strategies for the congealing of various and disparate oleaginous tin pot dictatorships into a smooth-running one-world kleptocracy, and on occasion deign which countries of constipated congeniality towards the one-world zeitgeist are in need of a cruise missile high colonic. With an organization of such pedigree, one might ask why I would want to receive such a rag of propaganda, pomp and nonsense. Am I on board with the New World Order's designs o...
Karl and Friedrich's Execrable Adventure The Vogue of Bad Ideas Having undertaken the chore of slogging through some of the verbose ramblings of Karl Marx in his The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, and after hearing and reading many erudite and reasoned assessments of the great bearded sage’s life and theories, I have come to the reasoned understanding that Karl could best be summed up as a layabout, itinerant moocher and generally worthless consumer of the fruits of other people’s labor, who endeavored to justify his sins of indolence by penning wordy ramblings of suspect credibility in order to cover for his glaringly parasitic existence. He has been hailed by many as one of the great theoreticians, polemists and political thinkers of the modern era. His theories have been hailed as weighty, profound and intellectually engaging. They have stirred the mi...
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