Yesterday I decided I needed a Humidifier

Guest Post by Robert Bronsdon (Hollywood Rob)

So I did what we all do.  I went on line to find out what I should buy.  It wasn’t going to be an Ultrasonic one as these destroy your electronics and my wife didn’t want to install a fountain in the bedroom so I settled on an evaporative humidifier which operates much in the same way as a swamp cooler.  Then I went out to buy the one that I liked…but NO.  Not only could I not buy the one that I wanted in a store, I couldn’t buy an evaporative humidifier anywhere around me.

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Now you might ask, why is this important.  Well, let me take you on a little journey that today culminated in a bit of an awakening.  I couldn’t buy a humidifier because the large companies with their massive computer systems had decided that they would not be able to sell these types of humidifiers in one of the driest places in America.  They wouldn’t mind selling me one, it would just have to be through their online outlet so that they didn’t have to have them sitting around in a store waiting for me to wander in.  There might well be a thousand evaporative humidifiers in the Los Angeles area but I have no access to them because I have no way of knowing where they might be.

This is directly analogous to our access to information.  How do you get the information that you need to make sense of your world and to manufacture your world view with some hope of being well informed?  We each have to do this.  Some of us make it a sport.  Some of us leave it up to experts at Fox or CNN.  But all of us are suffering because it turns out to be really difficult to find diverse opinions due to the extremely large computers at Google and Facebook and a few other gatekeepers who feel that it is somehow their mandate from god to ensure that you personally are not offended.  It is unfortunate that many members of our society (and Britain is far worse than here) feel that it is better to force people to remain silent so as to protect the delicate sensitivities of some oppressed class than it is to have a free an open exchange of ideas.

My awakening, and I offer it to you all for consideration, came at the hands of the Rubin Report and one Irishman Brendan O’Neill.  Not that these ideas are new.  In fact I encourage you to take a wander over to youtube to watch his hour on the Rubin Report where he explains that many of the ideas that are at play today were vastly different 100 years ago.  He is very clear about what a liberal used to be, and what he has become today.  But that really isn’t what my point is here.

I want you all to use every space available to you to search out things such as this and to share them with your friends.  Share them with you enemies, even that sister in law who drives you crazy every Christmas.  What I am going on about is that it is not the intent of the first amendment to protect the delicate snowflakes and crazed cat ladies from offense.  It is the intent of the first amendment to allow for the bold faced expression of offensive speech so that it might be debated in open society away from the shadows and in the light.  In other words; “Hate speech is free speech.”  If you can’t express hate speech then you do not have free speech.

“You have a duty to offend.”

So give this a watch and take heed.  This man is standing up and doing what we all should be doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWrljX9HRA

Oh and I bought a Venta Airwasher LW45G from overstock.com.  It had to come from somebody online at least it wasn’t amazon which was $40 more expensive.  And I gave another $10 of my savings to Best Friends in Utah.  They rescue dogs.