We introduce a new series today called Fascism Marches On.
Perhaps you've seen the many references on Twitter and other corrupt media to the new "war on domestic terror." In short, the State, now controlled by fascists, will wage war on all of its perceived political enemies using "deep state" institutions as they see fit. Political dissent will thus be crushed as a new Golden Age is ushered in.
Regarding this new development, which is so much in the spirit of Orwell's 1984, we have the first episode of our new series. It comes to us from Tim Pool and is entitled—
Democrats Call For FBI Probe Of Parler, Censorship Of Conservatives Reaching Criminal Level.
Tim may be about to feel the fascist boot on his neck, and he knows it of course, so he has created an independent website called Timcast.com. I joined today. If you want a true alternative to the constant cascade of self-serving lies, that's a good way to go. Of course even with an independent website and his own infrastructure Tim can still be crushed by the corporate state using many different methods.
After all, Tim engages in all kinds of wrongthink, and he competes with state-sanctioned media like CNN, which is yet another reason to destroy him.
But we should, I think, support Tim while independent media is still permitted to exist.
I should add that DOTE can also be crushed without difficulty if fascists should somehow take notice of it. As you know, there's all sorts of wrongthink on this blog going well beyond what Tim might say. So, if you believe the Adventures In Flatlandessays are important documents, I recommend you download them now. Or anything else I've written which was important to you over the last 10 years.
A short while ago I got annoyed watching Brett and Heather Weinstein talking about "the purge of social media, free speech and Big Tech collusion" (1st video below). If you don't know who they are, use a search engine. You know how to do that, right?
These almost-useless pedants kept referring to the "red" team—called conservatives—and the "blue" team—called ?????. They were talking about how the ????? is purging conservatives from social media. We know that these social media monopolists have done everything in their considerable power to put the ????? into office. We know that these some of these Silicon Valley oligarchs are going to be part of Joe Biden's incoming administration. One hand washes the other. They are in bed together and inseparable.
If you don't believe me, why don't you use a search engine? Or follow a link. You know how to do that, right?
Well, what do we call the questions marks ?????
We can not call them "liberals" because liberals don't purge anybody—doing so is illiberal. We can't call them "democrats" because purging people from the contemporary social media "public square" is profoundly anti-democratic. We can't call them "progressives" because silencing political opponents is regressive, not progressive.
To be accurate, we call the ????? authoritarians because only authoritarians carry out purges. There are a variety of different authoritarian types. I call them fascists to keep things simple. Everybody has some rough idea about what that word means. JP Sears calls them communists in the 2nd video below. That's yet another type of authoritarian.
There is no "red team" and "blue team" here. That's a false equivalency. There are fascists and their scapegoats. So perhaps you can see why I was getting annoyed with these highly intellectual fools the Weinsteins. Because they are muddled, they are muddle-headed. In short, they are confused as fuck. And they are not alone. Everywhere I look I see people who are as confused as fuck.
We are long, long past the political squabbles between the political conservatives and political liberals of yesteryear. Such obsolete unreal language ("red" and "blue" teams) only serves to create all this muddle-headed confusion.
We're not talking about disagreements about fiscal policy during the normal times which have held sway since World War II. We're talking about preserving freedom of speech. We're talking about not turning into a Western version of totalitarian China.
Now, to the title of this post—there is no "middle" ground between fascists and everybody else. Fascists want to take away your human rights and thus your freedom. Anti-fascists want to preserve those rights and freedom. Therefore there can not be a "middle" because in the middle lies only one thing—compromise to adjust or reform the status quo so as to preserve most of it.
Imagine compromising with fascists. It might go something like this—
OK, I'll give up my right to peacefully assemble if you let me keep free speech.
Well, there's some absurd shit. On several different levels all at once. Here's some advice. Read and re-read this post until you fully understand it, and then pass it on to others, always with the same meme or summary—
Don't Be Confused
The muddled but well-meaning Weinsteins are in the first video below. They even make a few good points, so it is worth watching. The second video is JP Sears having a conversation with Free Speech. Sears is not confused as fuck. He knows exactly what's going on now.
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom of society.
This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution. — Isaiah Berlin, from Two Concepts of Liberty (1969)
The bottom line is that I am an old liberal.
I am using the word 'liberal' in the old philosophical sense. To prevent people in a large, pluralistic human society from killing each other, to prevent unchecked predation among different groups, humans came up with the idea of generalized tolerance for all viewpoints (political, religious, etc.). To that end, humans established "natural" or "god-given" rights which every individual had as a birthright. These included the right to free speech, the right to peaceably assemble, the right to worship any god you wanted, and so forth.
An old liberal like me thinks this kind of freedom is the best possible solution to the obvious problems presented by human nature.
Unfortunately, elites in the Western world have lost sight of the wisdom of this best possible solution. Power and unrestrained self-interest have deranged them. These corrupt, amoral elites, who run nearly all of our most fundamental institutions, are now promoting and implementing intolerance through the creation and vilification of scapegoats. The Nazis had first the communists and then later the Jews, the "leftist" neoliberal/globalist elites in contemporary America have Trump and his supporters. It's always the same story historically.
Yesterday the "wrong-think" purges began on social media, which forms the "public square" in contemporary life. The elites disseminate and strictly control a self-serving "narrative" which is used to control the thinking of the little people. This manipulation is carried out on corporate and social media by those who own and run it.
This works because the vast majority of humans are incapable of independent thought and lack the ability to question authority (the narrative). That weakness (incapacity) is part of human nature, too. It is also paramount to keep people in a continual state of fear to make controlling them much easier (e.g., fear of COVID, lockdowns). Places where free speech still exists must be destroyed (and here). Those being scapegoated must be accused of doing the very thing predatory elites are in fact doing (psychological projection). The weak-minded will always believe these unreal accusations. The little people thus become deranged and full of hated for those scapegoated. This divisive result is the principal goal of the elite's manipulations (via the narrative).
All this is simply Fascism 101 or Totalitarianism 101 (in 2020, the merger of corporate and state power). Try this link.
The predatory Elites and the Sheeple, their prey. An old human trick. Works every time. George Orwell understood all this.
Donald Trump = Emmanuel Goldstein. Emmanuel Goldstein = Donald Trump.
And now, for comparison, watch this Trump vilification montage, from Calderon Pool. Those carrying out the elite propaganda and disinformation campaign in Hollywood and on corporate and social media have been advocating violence against Donald Trump and his supporters for 4 years now. For the Sheeple, such threats have become normalized, which was the idea all along.
The worst is yet to come. Perhaps you think I've overstated the crisis here, but trust me, it's coming. I tried to warn you in posts earlier this year. I knew those warnings would fail, but I felt obligated to try. In fact, I received a lot of hate for writing what I did. I expected that, too. No good deed goes unpunished here on the Monkey Planet.
As Luke Rudkowski says in the video below, Orwell's 1984 actually started yesterday, though the groundwork was laid for many years before now. This is an historical podcast and I hope you will watch it all the way through. There are weak moments in this very long discussion, but predominantly you will see young, liberal-minded people trying to come to grips with the terrible and evil fact that they no longer live in a free society.
It is very sad but it is also instructive if you have the awareness to appreciate this well-informed discussion. In 2020, that's a Big If.
