Today’s censors wield cudgels with the word ‘information’. Content they don’t like they call ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’. The justification is fake. Pretending to protect people from bad information by means of censorship may be called infaux thuggery.
I entered our “Time of Troubles” armed with Pieper’s most striking sentences at the forefront of my memory. What I gained was a forewarning: a singular percept of falsehood as an enduring and adversarial presence within our public life.
With the following Western Civilization Declaration, our intention is to make a strong case in the public for the foundations of our civilization still being an appropriate guide for the future of humanity.
If carbon dioxide production by evil humans is the culprit, we should be hearing about new data showing 1) reduced CO2 during lockdown and 2) a flattening or direction change of “climate change” temperature curves.
Indications of a renewed political sense abound. What seems to have been a dormant political awareness is being revived. Not only the intellectual activities under the auspices of Brownstone Institute testify to this; the growth of ‘patriotic’ activities is significant.
A holocaust could happen because some people built a structure within which only they could speak as they wished, whilst preventing others from talking back. Tyranny and pogroms thrive on one-way conversations.
We should also remember, that whether by war or a peaceful transition, fascism dies and with it the stale, dead, obedient, loyalist generation. They will have no graveyard, no tombstones, no memorials and no one will remember their names.
So there are actually two different paintings for two different worlds – the controlled world and the controller world. Like in the analogy of Plato’s Cave, the public is only allowed to see is a vague shadow of the controller world.
My mother’s death ensured that I am incapable of forgetting. My prayer is that the hardships which we now face will do the same for us as a people, lest we find ourselves built on sand when the next storm comes.
When confronted by an enemy, it is imperative to know them. And the more powerful this enemy is, the more urgent it is to be able to gauge their character – their strengths, their weaknesses, and most importantly, their psychological disposition.
What about Heart? Feelings? Love, sympathy, and compassion? Can they not be allowed to play any part in the future of humanity? Are reason, rationality, and logic the only faculties that can be allowed in the decision-making of the future?
If I cannot attempt to physically force or coerce, or covertly manipulate people into accepting my ideas, or trying to create the society that I envision, then the mechanism for change needs to be through inspiration.
