This is the new Medievalism – a revival of the mentality of the Dark Ages, which last manifested in Germany in the light of Dr. Goebbels’ bonfires and Stalin’s purging of the Kulaks
Posted by freedomforall 3 years, 3 months ago to Politics
"The Internet was great while it lasted. For about 20 years, information – all kinds – was available to almost anyone, easily and inexpensively. It was also possible for independent writers and commentators to reach a mass audience just as easily and inexpensively as the Authoritative Voices – as they are now styling themselves.
This was a big problem and the solution is a new religion. A religion of sickness, forever amen.
The boot Orwell wrote about that stomps on a human face, forever – in the name of spreading a sickness that isn’t physical so much as it is psychological. A danger so acute that no one may speak of it except the Authorized Voices and what they say must be accepted without question.
This is the new Medievalism – a revival of the mentality of the Dark Ages, which last manifested in Germany in the light of Dr. Goebbels’ bonfires and Stalin’s purging of the Kulaks. They didn’t have the Internet back then – thank god – but they used the same techniques then as now.
Terrorize the public so as to make the public pliable. Focus derision and exclusion on the few who remain unafraid and unpliable. Cast them as dangerous, even diseased things (the Nazis literally characterized their targets as a bacillus, as unhygienic) that cannot be tolerated for the sake of public health.
We’re here, by the way, because no one in a position to do something about it did anything about what was done to Alex about two years ago. He’s a kook, a right-wing crank. Who cares! Good riddance.
They should have done something. More of us should have cared."
This was a big problem and the solution is a new religion. A religion of sickness, forever amen.
The boot Orwell wrote about that stomps on a human face, forever – in the name of spreading a sickness that isn’t physical so much as it is psychological. A danger so acute that no one may speak of it except the Authorized Voices and what they say must be accepted without question.
This is the new Medievalism – a revival of the mentality of the Dark Ages, which last manifested in Germany in the light of Dr. Goebbels’ bonfires and Stalin’s purging of the Kulaks. They didn’t have the Internet back then – thank god – but they used the same techniques then as now.
Terrorize the public so as to make the public pliable. Focus derision and exclusion on the few who remain unafraid and unpliable. Cast them as dangerous, even diseased things (the Nazis literally characterized their targets as a bacillus, as unhygienic) that cannot be tolerated for the sake of public health.
We’re here, by the way, because no one in a position to do something about it did anything about what was done to Alex about two years ago. He’s a kook, a right-wing crank. Who cares! Good riddance.
They should have done something. More of us should have cared."
If America falls, like Rome did, the would will enter a new Dark Age.
This time as vassals of China.
Edit add: Never saw "The Orville". How is it?
Probably my favorite couple of episodes are "Majority Rule" (this one) and "Pria" because it discusses the absurd practical joke of amputing someone's leg.
Life imitates idiocy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJtH...
No one better exemplifies The Aristocracy of Pull than Joe Biden.
Traitors. Biden is just the latest one.
The best solution to Washington power would be for the people to insist upon a Constitutional amendment that senators and representatives had to govern from home. So many of the rest of us have to work from home. Their jobs could easily be done from home. It will never happen.
From the back cover:
"...in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he devastatingly demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same road that Germany followed to Nazism.
Self-sacrifice, mysticism, collectivism, doing one's duty, these are among the seductive catch-phrases that Leonard Peikoff dissects, examining the kind of philosophy they symbolize, the type of thinking that lured Germany to its doom and that he says is now dangerously prevalent in the United States."
I was a grad student in math in 1965 when I Read Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead. Being in chemistry and math there was not any real perceivable push to collectivism in instruction but occasionally one would be accosted by a small group of leftists and be called a baby killer due to the US in the Vietnam war. Only one course of mine, "contemporary American Society" taught by a FDR lookalike with an anti-capitalistic explanation about the Great Depression, was needed for graduation for my undergrad chemistry BS. Rand's lecture on Objectivist ethics came before I had read her novels, though there was a big commotion in the the student union with over flow crowd at the Frederic March Theater with load speakers for the hallway. I just heard some woman with a thick Russian accent speaking. I really missed out on learning some important philosophy at the time.
I do recomend Ominous Parallels as a possible explanation as how the USA has gotten to the point of many citizens choosing to spend much of their time in a trance state of burying their critical faculties to know that their thought processes are being selectively directed toward the destruction of a civil society.