Turns out that a society needs well-grounded and widely acknowledged conceptions of right and wrong after all. From Boyd D. Cathey at lewrockwell.com:
Our society is coming to resemble a dystopian “peoples’ paradise” in its darkly disturbing features. Think back to iconic works of literature like Arthur Koestler’s Darkness At Noon and George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Are we not living in a society which is little more than a cross between the nightmare visions of Koestler and Orwell? Do we not live in a society where dissidents are branded as “domestic terrorists,” “insurrectionists,” or “racists,” and face imprisonment for heretofore unimaginable thought crimes, all in the name of “defending our democracy”? –where our children have become wards of the state and are indoctrinated daily by mountains of fetid radical ideology? –where television and the Internet are employed to fashion a particular jaundiced view of life?—where science is now used to tell us the world will end in, what, ten years, if we don’t take immediate action to curb “the climate crisis”?—where we are cajoled to accept a “great reset” and a “new world order” controlled by unseen elites?
Far too many citizens do not fathom what has occurred and is happening in our society. And those who do understand, whether here in the US or in Europe, are swatted down by the long arm of “Big Brother,” turned into “non-persons,” their reputations destroyed, awakened by armed-to-the-teeth FBI agents before dawn and imprisoned for months or years without trial or the benefit of counsel—“enemies of the regime.” Is this not reminiscent of what occurred in Eastern Europe immediately after the conclusion of World War II, when the Soviets progressively installed socialist dictatorships by successfully eliminating and suppressing any real opposition, all happening why the benevolent USA looked on?
This just in from Dean Wurmser:
Infantile and stupid is no way to go through life.
Keep me safe mommygov as the prison walls go up.
Saw one earlier about South American prison where they found an arsenal of Glocks, revolvers, SMG, so even there it is no safe space.
The mean pinched bitter faces (Karen) as William S. Burroughs said.
It would be fun to do one of those Mark Dice man on the street interview about current events and ask about Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, hell even the Bolshoi and Kremlin, just to see the blank stares and muh sailfawn.
Thank you, this is exceptional and has prompted me to order Arthur Koestler’s book.
You’re welcome.
“I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.”
― Arthur Koestler