You have to ask: what is the game here?
Was there not a time when authentic Liberals yearned for press freedom everywhere? Was there not a time when restricting it HERE would have been considered heretical, unprincipled, insane?
I remember this time. I remember people like Norman Lear saying “I may not agree with you but this is America goddammit, so do whatever stupid shit you want and I will defend your right to do it, all while calling you a dumbass.”
But Norman Lear is gone, like Joe DiMaggio in the “Mrs. Robinson”. I turn my lonely eyes to him. He let me down. I was never his ilk of Liberal, but he stood for something, for a time. And the time passed, then he seemingly stood, stands, for nothing.
Apple stands for nothing. Google Stands for nothing. All these people: money, power, politics: all trump principle. Worse: principle is not even a factor in the equation–perception is, with self perception leading the pack. Who do they think they can be if they act in ways likely to draw cheers from preselected people and groups? This is what is in play. More or less literally, Apple execs, and Google execs, and Twitter and the rest of them are asking: what filter do I need to put on my personality to get more likes for my selfies?
This is what I feel.
Where did all the good people go? Where the fuck did Normal Lear go? Where did the people who value freedom–right to assemble, right to free speech, right to religion, right to fair elections, right to fair trial, etc.–go? We exist in a day and time where the dividing line is not between differing conceptions of freedom and justice, but between differing conceptions of the VALUE of freedom and justice, as defined conventionally. The good people are gone. The Liberals are gone. Norman Lear is dead. Meathead is dead. Alan Alda is dead.
And its fucking Nazis, with their propaganda Luftwaffe bombing the shit out of everyone. This is a sad, sad development, one even my cynical fucking self did not expect, a betrayal even for someone used to betrayals.
Fuck you people. I don’t know what the fuck happened, but I hope all die painfully tomorrow, and that your kids and grandkids have some iota of decency, human feeling, and the capacity for rational thought.