Cancel Culture – The Burning Platform

BURNING BOOKS IN A BRAVE NEW 1984 WORLD – THE AGE OF CENSORSHIP

In Part 1 of this article, I explored how Huxley, Orwell, and Bradbury foretold the use of technology by totalitarians to subjugate and control the masses. Now we move on to a currently hot topic – censorship.

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Censorship

“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” – Ray Bradbury

The primary theme of Fahrenheit 451 is censorship. In Bradbury’s dystopia, burning books was the principal method of censorship, directed by the government, but generally supported by the masses. A form of self-censorship developed, as the dullards, intellectually lazy, and willfully ignorant, preferred books to be burned so they felt that would put them on a level playing field with the critical thinkers and intellectually curious minded.

It always comes back to the government doing everything in their power to keep the masses apathetic, ill-informed, entertained, and distracted, to ensure their continued control over society. Bradbury believed the masses would go along with censorship because they already had television, radio, and fast cars, with vacuous programming, loud music, and unceasing advertising creating over-stimulation and distraction for the populace. They were too distracted to read a book, learn, think critically, or question the authorities.

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CALLING OUT THE CANCEL CULTURE

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Middlebury College is one of the most expensive schools in Vermont. It features a safe, bucolic, and well-maintained campus along with a sizeable endowment for a school of its size. During the heat of the BLM movement when it seemed that statues of historic figures were being toppled almost daily, a small group of administrators decided to strip the name of Mead from the marble Chapel that bore it for over a century. They created a narrative that the man responsible for its construction, a former Governor of Vermont and alumnus, John Mead, was a -gasp- eugenicist. The statements that they made at the time gave the impression that the decision was made only after thoughtful deliberation, a fiction that was quickly exposed by members of the Mead family.

The actions, impulsive and reactionary, were not to go unanswered and last year a suit was filed by another retired Vermont governor on behalf of the family of John Mead.

This story is one that reflects the current zeitgeist of Progressive Post America. Claiming current standards should apply to historic personages and that shaming, deplatforming and censorship is the only suitable solution for imagined transgressions of another time. Had they not been so dishonest in their communications with family members, and the press it is likely that they would have gotten away with it. Their responses were equally fallacious, claiming that no records of any agreement between Mead and the College existed and that the removal of the name from the hallowed shrine was purely academic rather than a breach of contract.

The pendulum of history is wont to swing both ways. Perhaps in some small way there will be an accounting for these transgressions and the school will be one of the first to reverse course when politically correct decisions are made in haste.

Via Legal Insurrection

Exclusive Video Interview: Former VT Governor On His Challenge To Middlebury College’s De-Naming Iconic Mead Chapel

James Douglas: “They took the name off the building without even knowing for whom the building was named.”

Early one morning in September 2021, while most of Vermont’s Middlebury College campus was still asleep, workers arrived at the Mead Memorial Chapel. Tools in hand, they wrenched the rustic wooden sign bearing the Mead family name out of its niche above the entrance to the 105-year-old historic house of worship. It broke as it came out, exposing the bare brick wall behind it.

After the deed was done, the school pointed to Governor John Abner Mead’s “instigating role” in the Vermont eugenics movement as the reason for ripping his family’s name off the iconic chapel he endowed.

(Image from Court Complaint)

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Remember when everyone knew pro wrestling was fake and they finally admitted it and the fans didn’t care and continued to watch anyway?

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone

We’re almost there with politics and the media.

The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship

All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party’s liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.

Glenn Greenwald on Substack, January 29, 2022.

Glenn is absolutely one of the most important voices out there right now. Consider subscribing to his substack please.

Below is a taste of the article:

To start:
American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by “liberals,” I mean the term of self-description used by the dominant wing of the Democratic Party).

For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of “hate speech” to mean “views that make us uncomfortable,” and then demand that such “hateful” views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert, falsely, that the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech does not protect “hate speech.” Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.

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FOURTH TURNING 2022 – BAD MOON RISING (PART THREE)

In Part One & Part Two of this article I laid out how those in power have used the power of propaganda and the psychology of fear to weaponize a flu to further their Great Reset agenda, while ensuring an economic and financial collapse through the issuance of trillions in unpayable bad debt. In Part Three of this article, I will examine how the civic decay in our society, created by the ruling class, will coalesce into a bloody firestorm of death and destruction during the remaining years of this Fourth Turning.

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.” ― George Orwell, 1984

There had been a theory discussed a few years ago regarding the nature of Fourth Turnings alternating between externally focused and internally focused. It is more about the key drivers, as all Fourth Turnings are impacted by domestic and foreign influences. Even though the sample size is small, this Fourth Turning appears to be following the alternating pattern. The American Revolution was driven by conflict with a foreign power (Great Britain), with another foreign power (France) tipping the scales in favor of the patriots. The Civil War was almost entirely a domestic internal conflict, with Great Britain not fully supporting the Confederacy, and tipping the scales in favor of the North. The Great Depression was created by global central bank machinations, with World War II almost entirely fought on foreign soil, leaving the U.S. as the unchallenged leader of the free world after 1945.

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