He whose vision cannot cover/ History’s three thousand years,/ Must in outer darkness hover,/ Live within the day’s frontiers

 Viva la Heterodoxy!

"Freedom and truth are the ultimate evolutionary survival mechanisms."  

Richard Fernandez

“The only inference is that for purposes of real public opinion the press is now a mere plutocratic oligarchy”  

G.K. Chestertown, in Heretics, saying in 1905 what is clearly the case in 2020.

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."  

Blaise Pascal. The more things change...

Fyodor Dostoevsky described the consequences of not loving the truth. In The Brothers Karamazov, Father Zossima warns, “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and others.”

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, link below, on Big Tech (our new self-appointed Minister of Truth) using arbitrary, undelineated, and idiotic thought-control algorithms to silence rational truth-seeking voices from addressing issues Big Tech decides to decree as off-limits and taboo. Any deviation from the official dogma on anything related to Covid-19 has been taboo all year. As is pretty much any idea or information that goes against the Narrative on any subject. Was there voter fraud? Why are we told by the oligarchy media not to have any interest in this very plausibly real subject, while we were bombarded by the same oligarchy media for years with the manufactured out of thin air Russian collusion hoax? Why should such total blanket suppression of any and all honest and informed discussion of this subject, only in this election, not be understood as a presumed implicit admission there was voter fraud? We are left with unexplained, unjustified, and unaccounted for obvious mathematical anomalies and gross procedural legal irregularities. Is not such pervasive suppression part of the whole process of what was in multiple ways undoubtedly a fixed rigged election. If we do not have integrity in our elections and news media what the hell are we? You can be deplatformed in this, the greatest Democracy in history, for discussing such matters calmly and rationally with reasonable forthright honesty. Deplatformed, suspended, ghosted, down the memory hole, is now your fate if you have any awareness of realities inconvenient to, or think differently than, our anonymous Orwellian Overlords of Party Line Conformity. They are now the all-knowing Wizard behind the curtain, frantically pulling and pushing levers and buttons, and bellowing smoke. Silence! The all-powerful Oz of the Oligarchy has spoken! If we pull back the curtain what sad pathetic spectacle would we see?  

There is a totalitarian virus infecting our culture today that we have the power to overcome, but only if we have the courage of the little dog Toto to pull back the curtain and look. Sunlight is the is the first necessary essential disinfectant.  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1tjeOYUMWplJ7iWdTVCVJSxYl6ahpXxEBt1CLsAdbh7uL_J0iXDS55vH8&feature=youtu.be&v=4vei5KmW4qQ

Interesting how in the early days of the internet the tech 'nerds' were all in for freedom and opening up the flow of information ('Don't be Evil', Google - or the Apple 1984 commercial). Lord Acton knew what he was talking about. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

"No longer do we have a State that expresses the condition of Society, we have a Society which expresses the nature of the State."  

Roger Sctuton

Orwell described the direction we are heading, although Aldous Huxley may have come even closer in Brave New World (1932) in anticipating something like the CCP social credit system in China where people are rated or graded on every action and transaction in their life; with the prospect of rewards such as a job or decent house or punishment by deprivation of these and much else as well, depending on your rating. People eventually are either literally or figuratively cloned and conditioned into mental servility, and manipulated using every available tool of science and psychology to have no interest other than to fit in, to be accepted and belong to this Brave New World. They require no coercion to be obedient to the rulers and conditioners, and end up willingly and contentedly herded into passive comfortable subservience to a totalitarian Big Brother.

Here is Orwell on how information is handled in a totalitarian state: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right...

...In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”  

George Orwell, 1984. (Written 1948, (hence the choice of the title 1984), published 1949).  

It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overreaches ruler and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy . . . if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators, and conditioners.  

C. S. Lewis

He whose vision cannot cover  

History’s three thousand years,  

Must in outer darkness hover,  

Live within the day’s frontiers.

GOETHE, Westöstlicher (West-Eastern) Diwan, 1819.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."  

from the Preamble, Declaration of Independence, 1776

An always timely and pertinent statement from 1849, by Henry David Thoreau.  

https://www.thoreau-online.org/civil-disobedience.html