Dear Friends,
It seems to me… censorship can only lead to disaster. No matter how smart, wise and moral the censors might be, the very fact we are not allowed to discuss what is going on, necessarily puts us in danger. Because once a society becomes an echo chamber, the ideas that are called smart, become ever more absurd. With no one able to debate, absurdity becomes the norm, and we all understand that the absurd does not survive long. That is why LSD was outlawed. People tripping on it would occasionally jump off buildings thinking they could fly. Their understanding of reality had become absurd. That absurdity leading to their ruin. So we could say, a society or civilization that has censorship, is like a person on LSD… that culture could kill itself anytime, because eventually, it believes in absurdity.
To those doing the censorship, nothing could make more sense, they after all are the reasonable ones with the correct world view. Why should they allow others with differing ideas to spout their nonsense to the world. Especially when the rest of us are idiots who could fall for the foolishness others are selling. It is their duty to censor us… if you think of it. They are the protectors of society. They are so much smarter than the rest of us, us thinking we should have a say, proves we shouldn’t. They are the authorities, the professionals and the scientists. The modern versions of Popes, Satraps and Imams, the final authority. Anyone questioning them is by definition a hater or racist. Why should a hater or racist be given a stage? To give the censors the benefit of the doubt.
The villain seldom sees himself as the villain, they usually see themselves as the hero. The single voice of sanity, holding back the tide of insanity, by controlling what people are allowed to say and thus what is acceptable to think. The villain only sees herself as a villain when they are truly diabolical. Even then, there is some spark of divinity within all of us, even in the lost, that trips up the malevolent eventually. Evil always destroys itself. Do you think the Young Turks saw their actions, cutting babies from the bellies of screaming Armenian girls, as their husbands were forced to watch… as a bad thing? Of course not. They believed crucifying thousands of young Armenian girls, after raping them, was a moral heroic act. As our big tech corporate overlords believe censorship makes them heroes.
The arrogance and hubris of that attitude is amazingly self serving. Like when the FBI attorney who altered documents, before they were submitted to a FISA court, was allowed to plead that he thought he was making them “more accurate” by altering them. They honestly think they are so much smarter, better informed, wiser and more moral than us, it is their duty to lie to us, censor us, suppress the truth and destroy innocent men to maintain a self serving glittering lie. A glittering lie, like a glistening turd, is made of the same thing. Made from the same stuff as Thrasymachus and following the same philosophy, updated with a shiny new name, they believe truth is subjective and relative, not objective and universal. They believe truth is subjective because it serves their desires.
Such people cannot be reasoned with because they are not reasonable. Once they are in a position to control, even thought itself, that society is on a path to oblivion. A nice place to read about but I wouldn’t want to visit. Especially with my loved ones. There can be no meaningful discourse with someone who is manipulating you. That person is not trying to come to a win win solution they only want to crush you. You cannot negotiate with someone who censors you, nor can you come to an accord, they have to be removed from a position to censor you. No matter what it takes. Because such people are a mortal danger to our loved ones, us, our nation and our civilization as a whole. Anything less is to follow “heroic” villains, hopped up on power… leading us to oblivion.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
