I’ve been talking about this slippery slope from what I might call intellectual sloppiness to political dogmatism for some time, but for some reason, now that the extent of what these tech companies are capable of is really hitting me because it is HAPPENING–Alex Jones, self evidently, is nothing more or less than the canary in the coalmine, as I believe he has described himself–I am wondering again how seemingly good people could be led down this evil path.
I sat down to post on something else, but I’m not feeling it at the moment.
We are at a crossroads. Our culture has been bifurcated between those who value reason and principle, and those who have either forgotten what those words mean, or–ironically enough–rejected them AT the level of principle, for reasons they can’t really articulate because they don’t exist at the level of logic.
They are animals seeking shelter from the storm, nothing more. What was human, advanced, noble in them: they no longer want. They want crumbs from heaven, and the relative warmth of caves. Give them that, and they will follow anywhere, do anything, believe anything, permit anything. There are no “No’s” left in them. Their “Yes’s” they are given, and those same “Yes’s” can be and are taken away at the turn of a hat, and pushed in some completely other direction. They can be made to love anything, or hate anything, based simply on the headlines they read that day.
Daily Cause indeed. Perhaps there needs to be a publication called the “Nihilistic Prophet”.