Building the New Dark-Age Mind

[Geee]

PJ Media:

History is not static and it does not progress linearly. There was more free speech and unimpeded expression in 5th-century Athens than in Western Europe between 1934-45, or in Eastern Europe during 1946-1989. An American could speak his mind more freely in 1970 than now. Many in the United States had naively believed that the Enlightenment, the U.S. Constitution, and over two centuries of American customs and traditions had guaranteed that Americans could always take for granted free speech and unfettered inquiry.

 

That is an ahistorical assumption. The wish to silence, censor, and impede thought is just as strong a human emotion as the desire for free expression — especially when censorship is cloaked in rhetoric about fairness, equality, justice, and all the other euphemisms for not allowing the free promulgation of ideas.

 

George Orwell devoted his later years to warning us that while the fascist method of destroying free expression was easily identified (albeit only with difficulty combatted), the leftwing totalitarian impulse to squelch unpopular speech was far harder to resist — couched as it was in sloganeering about the “people” and “social justice.” It is easy to object to the speech codes of a self-interested, corrupt dictator in sunglasses and epaulettes, but difficult to fight censorship that allegedly helps the poor, minorities, and the helpless.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Very Good. The Thing Is The Likes Of The Clinton's....College Professors....Race/Gender Pimps....etc...etc...etc, is they are but a symptom of an Ideology that has hi jacked the Left. At its core it doesn't like Western Civilization (The Modern World), they don't have anything to replace it with, as that would require actual thinking/questioning, It's Anarchism/Nihilism, Think of it as the leftist version of "I'm Mad As Hell And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore". This Is Why We See This Alliance Between The PC Left And Islamist Muslims. They Both Hate Western Civilization for difference reasons. What our "Friends" on the Left don't seem to understand id if/when the Islamist take over, they'll be the 1st to be put up against the wall.