I am sitting behind my keyboard this morning, mouth open, stunned. And, fair to say, distraught – I don’t write that last lightly. My plight started with reading of further authors protesting PEN’s intention to give French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo an American freedom of expression award; that number now reaching two dozen – confirming everything I have written in this piece on how a Progressive literature is the death of a literature that can resist tyranny anymore, and so part only of the western capitulation into another iteration of statist tyrannies.
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Liberty and freedom are two proud words that have been executed from the political lexicon: they were frog marched and stood before a wall of blank minds, then forcibly blindfolded, and shot, with the whimpering staccato of ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’ resounding over and over. And not only did this atrocity go unreported by journalists in the mainstream media, they were in the firing squad.
The premise of this blog is simple: the Soviets thought they had equality, and welfare from cradle to grave, until the illusory free lunch of redistribution took its inevitable course, and cost them everything they had. First to go was their privacy, after that their freedom, then on being ground down to an equality of poverty only, for many of them their lives as they tried to escape a life behind the Iron Curtain. In the state-enforced common good, was found only slavery to the prison of each other's mind; instead of the caring state, they had imposed the surveillance state to keep them in line. So why are we accumulating a national debt to build the slave state again in the West? Where is the contrarian, uncomfortable literature to put the state experiment finally to rest?
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Friday, May 1, 2015
West’s Tipping Point: Feminist Theocracy Institutes Feminist Sharia - #ProteinWorld #PEN
I am sitting behind my keyboard this morning, mouth open, stunned. And, fair to say, distraught – I don’t write that last lightly. My plight started with reading of further authors protesting PEN’s intention to give French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo an American freedom of expression award; that number now reaching two dozen – confirming everything I have written in this piece on how a Progressive literature is the death of a literature that can resist tyranny anymore, and so part only of the western capitulation into another iteration of statist tyrannies.
It happened because we are stuffed up - all of us have emotions and baggage that override sensible behaviour when buttons are pushed. Its the human condition and the sensible among us, assuming that somethings are still seen as sensible, stopped fighting against it as the foolishness encroached on the top levels of power. Not everyone has your intellect or rationality and your mistake is thinking that you can reason with everyone to achieve a result that both sides will accept or the control freaks will see the error of their ways. Sometimes the other side just needs a punch on the nose.
ReplyDeleteI hate this bollocks as much as you but am not at all surprised that its come about. Its not new at all - history is littered with idiots that dictated opinion of the masses. You'll enjoy this shambles longer than me because I'm the kind of particularly offensive person they will come for first.
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Jeez, we're in 100% agreement :)
DeleteAnd your observations are wise and true.
Oh, and I'll stick up for you as they drag you away ;)
DeleteI suspect we agree on far more than you realise. I have a book "Triumph of the Airheads". Interesting but so depressing.
ReplyDeleteHistory is full of people watching others get dealt to but doing nothing because they were not of the same race, culture, religion or whatever. The human condition is hardly flash. Courage takes all sorts of form but we celebrate those who had it on the occasion they needed it because its rare and often manifest in those we thought least likely to have it. The next few years will be interesting.
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You wrote a book called Triumph of the Airheads or you have a book?
DeleteThere are two massive evils in the world today - socialism (one of whom's manifestations is "political correctness") and Islam.
ReplyDeleteEach is an ally of the other and both must be destroyed.
I believe that the *core* of socialism's power is that they control the schools, universities and media. In order to destroy their stranglehold it is necessary to use the "eat-an-elephant-a-bite-at-a-time" approach. By this, I mean "start with the schools".
We can see how *desperate* the left is to destroy charter schools. This outrage betrays their knowledge that such schools are a *danger* to them, eroding their power base.
Blog-sites do this too - witness the fury and blind hatred that the left have for the WhaleOil site.
We need *hundreds* of charter schools. When they have been set up, they will give children an *education* instead of the indoctrination that state schools give. That will then flow on to the universities and eventually the media.
We *do know* that the public as a whole are switching *off* and turning away from the left-wing-infested MSM - the "news" and the papers. That trend is good for us.
Put it this way - we are the "right wing bacteria" that are resistant to the "left-wing antibiotics". What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
*Remember THIS* - that it only takes a tiny colony of ultra-resistant bugs to lay waste to a body - in this case, the body being the *left wing*.
( Ok, not a perfect analogy given that it is the LEFT who are the *bugs* of the world, but anyway... )
I don't mind that part of Islam which is not theocratic: that is, happy to keep to itself. My views on multi-culturalism are here:
Deletehttp://lifebehindtheirondrape.blogspot.co.nz/2012/09/montesquieu-and-islam-peaceful-crusade.html
I broadly agree with you on socialism though, because that can't leave those of us who want free lives alone: which is the problem.
And yes, via Gramsci, with 95% teachers signed up to the PPTA, the socialist rot starts there, and is thus so hard to overturn.
DeleteI'm no writer but an avid reader so it means I bought a book called "The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense". The author is Shelley Gare.
ReplyDeleteHaving just finished "The Death of Money" by James Rickards I'm convinced that socialism is doomed but the death throes will be very ugly. Hong Kong still has real bookshops and was both interesting and encouraging to see what was on the shelves.
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Thanks re your first paragraph. Agree with all your points in the second.
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