Dear Friends,
It seems to me, a government that doesn’t listen to anyone else, is a mortal danger to the citizenry and itself. Moreover, that government will censor to protect it’s echo chamber from disharmony. Making the motivation to censor a way to promote lies, hide truths and defend ignorance. As the Holy Bible says, Satan is the great deceiver. Secondary evils birthed by censorship are hypocrisy, hubris and stupidity. Few are as stupid as those unwilling to listen to others. Because they fence out potential knowledge. In fact, a government that staunchly refuses to listen is one that can only know that which it already knows, and is unable to measure if a thing they think, is true, or not. Making government’s ignorance, enforced by censorship… a mortal danger to the world.
All knowledge comes from other people. This axiom also applies to government. A baby born into a sensory deprivation chamber, and living there for fifty years, will know nothing when he or she emerges. There’s no such thing as a priori knowledge. On what foundation does that child have to base any thought? None. Government that refuses to listen is the same. It might as well be in a sensory deprivation chamber. There’s no knowledge gain, only absurd ideas, set in ever harder concrete. If you refused to listen to anyone else, you would become ever more ignorant. Just as government is. Government becomes ever more ignorant while believing it’s the smartest person in every room. Stupidity abetted by ignorance. Making governments the definition of a fool.
Censorship then keeps not only the people ignorant but governments as well. Which if you think of it, is quite dangerous. Because someone ignorant will act in ways counter to their self interest. Out of a lack of knowledge. Doctors used to think leeches cured disease. Now we know different. If they had refused to listen to Louis Pasteur, they still would be using leeches. As most advanced governments are stuck in the Middle Ages with the rest still in the bronze age. Because the elite think they know it all, and so have no need of input, feedback or new information. It’s redundant and takes away from their unlimited power. So they censor, to maintain the purity of their echo chamber, atop the ivory tower. Which seems smart, to an ignoramus, foolish enough to believe they know it all.
Without feedback, new information or input of any kind, the elite can only get off track. Like driving a race car blindfolded, deafened, and by wire. The outcome isn’t likely to be optimal. Take for example, the Covid crisis created by government ignorance. The virus was made in a Wuhan lab with American tax dollars. Then released by stupidity or malevolence. A host of vaccines created with untested technology, and rolled out for a species wide implementation. With mandates and vaccine passports to force it into our bloodstreams. Millions are dead and millions more suffer side effects of the untested shots. As this was happening, governments claimed the virus came from a pangolin, and arrested people for walking alone on a beach. Because censorship kept us from true information back then.
When the truth is suppressed and lies are pushed, the result is stupidity. Government that maintains a strict policy of ignorance can’t properly govern. Moreover, sensory deprivation is a poor place to gain knowledge. We have to listen to others, everyone has their story… All knowledge comes from others. Sure, people spout a lot of garbage, but hidden within that garbage, are diamonds, gold and Rolex watches. Talking isn’t listening, but the elite love to talk, and detest listening. So they censor that which they dislike. Shutting off their only source of knowledge. Then go on to do things that kill millions of people. It’s no problem though… because there’s no consequence to the elite for failure. Making their ignorance, defended by censorship, a mortal danger to us all.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
