Are We Moving Irrevocably Towards the Old Soviet System?

Guest Post by Robert Bronsdon (Hollywood Rob)

Much digital ink has been devoted to expressing opinions on the concepts which underlie our morality and our society.  I think that this is a great discussion to have as there is literally no other place in the great USofA where that discussion can talk place.  All venues of dissent have been closed.  But let’s face it, while many people have opinions…not all opinions are as well founded.  Some come from books.  Some come from school.  Some come from political cartoons.  Some come from a church or a mosque.

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We all hope that we are well informed but must admit that not one of us can possess the insight necessary to do proper justice to even the simplest concepts.  And as concepts become more complex, the amount of study to create a solid base of understanding becomes daunting.  This is likely why so many of us turn to the main stream media.  We want them to distill the required knowledge down to small enough bites that we can swallow them and hopefully remember them.  But, of course, that leaves us vulnerable to the corruption that results from the coercion of the main stream media.  To mold our minds one only has to gain control over the pathways of information and through that control, modify the message that reaches our ears and forms the basis for our opinions.

Dr. Jordan Peterson has placed his entire library of class videos online.  If you want to learn what he has taught it is available for all to see.  In this video he explains how Dostoevsky saw the system under which he was condemned to live.  He wrote about how the need to know what every citizen was saying stultified the population to the point that no one could say anything that they thought.  I don’t doubt that what Dostoevsky said is exactly true.

I would just like to suggest that having the US government read every email, tweet, and phone conversation is not just similar, it is exactly the same thing that the government of Russia implemented and it will have exactly the same impact.  That, I would offer, is the greatest evil of all.  For while one could certainly say that killing a person is the greatest taking that can occur, taking away their freedom to express themselves is actually far worse for it kills the soul every minute of every day.

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