One sign of untruthfulness is the uttering of untrue statements. Sometimes you know about the matter in question, and the statement disagrees with your understanding. You then suspect the speaker is untruthful. What are the leading signs of untruthfulness?
We lived through one of the most staggering human rights violations in recent history. At the heart of this crisis lies the crossing of two fundamental Rubicons: the erosion of the First Amendment and the violation of the Nuremberg Code.
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That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and necessarily time-bound case of evil “in a box.” Why?
One cannot ignore the possibility that certain actions could occur which may, indeed, trigger the use of nuclear weapons by Russia, and then, in retaliation, by NATO countries, or vice versa. One can only hope that cool heads will prevail.
It is all too easy, when in the middle of a crisis, to give up. But to fix what ails us, we don’t have to fix everything in one moment or one action. We only need to make a start.
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.
