Sorry Charlie, by Good Citizen

Charlie Kirk’s murder has provoked a torrent of really stupid analyses and “solutions.” From Good Citizen at thegoodcitizen.live:

The first sacrifice is critical thinking. The greater one that follows is always freedom.

Charlie Kirk traveled University campuses under the premise of a small tent heading: “Change My Mind.”

An ideologue of any stripe, whose mind is already made up, will never change it, certainly not publicly in front of thousands of people, with millions watching these “debate” spectacles play out remotely. To change one’s mind requires living monastically, dedicated to possessing an open one, the antithesis of embracing ideology.

Students either gathered to rage watch this spectacle, yelling their implanted talking points, or to glaze Charlie in red hats, and then laugh at the emotionally fragile who attempted to move that boulder up a hill, to “change his mind.” Socrates would blush at such calculated sophistry for emotional manipulation—all of it in the service of financial gain, increased celebrity, and power for one political party.

We don’t live in a time when logic and deductive reasoning are taught, much less valued, to discourage indulging the unscrupulous and wicked. The absence of logic and reason goes a long way in the aftermath of ‘mass’ events these days, where a single criminal act is involved, and an obvious conspiracy to cloud the truth of it.

There are official versions, alternative versions, and unfounded sleight-of-hand theories. Apart from being vastly different in premise, evidence, motive, and conclusions, all of them attract acolytes in the same manner to contort themselves to compel square pegs to fit round holes. The male phallus wasn’t created as a square block for a reason. Indulging its thrusts would be almost as painful as observing these acolytes raping logic and reason to force those pegs where they will never fit.

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