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For the Love of Ideas
all viewpoints are equal, but some are more equal than others
A paradise awaits us. Once the battle has been won, at long last feelings will be more important than facts
Women's March on Trump. Source: Mark Dixon
Soon your gender, race and sexual orientation will define how you must behave and what you are entitled to, instead of oppressive, discriminatory criteria like ability and experience. How many have suffered because somebody of a different race or gender was more suitable for a job or a place in university than they were? How many have suffered because scientific facts have been used to destroy sincerely held subjective opinions? Enough is enough. Soon, it shall end, and the fascists and their ideas will be crushed forever and buried beneath the salted earth. Their history shall be rewritten, their monuments, buildings and art shall be torn down. Their books shall be burned. Fear not the truth, for the truth is but clay on the potter's wheel, and we shall be the ones who turn it. Anyone who does not support us is a Nazi, and the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
This may as well be the evening prayer of millions.
What a time to be alive. Thousands of youths march openly against democracy and free speech, universities are breeding grounds of pseudoscience. Both state and corporate censorship are rising to levels we would have naively assumed would not be accepted by
the general public. But there they are, sick of the responsibilities that come with liberty, marching under the banners of false equality and socialism, and they don't have arguments, so they use weapons.
This is what happens when the pampered kids living in the good times that strong men and women have made, taking for granted all their liberties and securities and never hearing the word "no" grow up to find
out the world owes them nothing for existing, to the contrary of all those Disney movies and participation medals. They sadly come to the conclusion that some great injustice must therefore be afoot, and identify themselves as oppressed victims who must rise up against...something. Anything. Everything. We have not faced a greater threat to western civilization since the rise of Bolshevism. The red terror, it seems, is back, and more vile and twisted and zealous than ever.
Perhaps a less informed reader could suspect I have sympathies with the alt-right due to my focus on the far left. It is sad that I must make this disclaimer, but yes, I hate national socialism, violence and racism, wouldn't you know. The reason I condemn the left is because they are so much more dangerous than let’s say, the celibate, round shouldered neckbeards we saw marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville over that statue. Everyone already knows National Socialism is evil.
But National Socialism and white supremacy have not infiltrated our universities, corporations, schools and mainstream media. Antifas ideology of anti-capitalism and cultural marxism on the other hand, which I shall define as a dreadful package deal including historical revisionism, pseudoscience, and a general hatred of civilisation, is everywhere. British taxpayer money is funding BBC documentaries that are normalising incestuous arranged marriages and teaching children that native British tribes and roman conquerors were largely people of colour. (I understand the motivations for the second but I find it utterly embarrassing that we find it anything short of bonkers to rewrite the truth just to make a racial demographic feel more included). It doesn't stop there.
Google is changing the definitions of words. It has fired at least one employee for a memo designed to help empower women in certain fields as it insinuated that women are therefore different to men, and social networks are demonetizing, censoring, and outright deleting content that criticises Islam, the left and cultural Marxism itself, even going so far as to target videos criticising post-modernist art and architecture. Nothing is safe. As of 2018, advertising in the UK will no longer be allowed to portray "offensive gender stereotypes". What that means is anyone's guess, along with why we have come to such a stage that it is the business of the state in the first place. Want to call for the eradication of the white race and President Trump's assassination? Here's a "verified icon" for your twitter account. Let’s pump up that #killtrump hashtag whilst we are at it, comrade. Want to criticise Islam on twitter? Expect a visit from the police.
News articles are changing their content at anti-fascist’s request (read: coercion), and the cyber police are starting to target anything as right wing as Jacob Rees-Mogg appreciation societies on facebook. The wild west days of a free internet are over, unless you want to publish videos encouraging children to identify as transgender and teaching them about anal sex, or how Islam is apparently empowering to women, and other strange propaganda, which I can't help but feel is there to mash us all up into a defenceless grey porridge of Orwellian paradoxes, glorified mental illnesses and neglected family values.
Everybody is talking about fascism, a meaningless and artificial label applied to anyone right of centre. This is why Antifa and the like are not the problem itself but rather just a symptom of the intellectual cancer crippling our generation. These sad individuals have been stripped of their ability to think critically, have been led to believe that they are in fact the righteous resistance in the face of a great injustice, and have been convinced that they are under immediate attack by their puppeteers behind the mainstream media. And that is why when Antifa clashes with this meagre assembly of white nationalists, I see no difference between the two.
Both factions will tell you that they are the true resistance, and that you must take their side to protect your freedoms. Don't be fooled. The differences between the two ideologies, as far as principle goes, are totally superficial. Ignore the convenient line in the sand between
"Far Left and Far Right" They are the same, because they both see society as members of hierarchical groups, and single out some of these groups as "the enemy". They both believe that any truth or opinion against their narrative is unthinkable and should be silenced through coercion or violence, and above all else, they both reject the root of all liberty: the concept of the individual.
The real battle is the same that has been burning since the dawn of human society: the individual versus the collective; the yin-yang of liberty and authority. Right now, collectivism and authority are definitely winning.
Every time a policy is changed or a voice silenced, because enough people say that two and two don't make four, the bolts around our fetters tighten as we tiptoe a step closer to the abyss.
Women march against the Alt-Right in Washington. Source: Liz Lemon