There are people out there trying, on purpose, to freak us out. And doing a pretty good job of it, too.
Why? It gets votes. It gets TV ratings, social media views, or even fame. It raises funds. And it creates favorable conditions for further mischief. I think I’ve put my finger on it there.
It’s very hard to maintain a peaceful, orderly society when the slightest opposition to our plans for the moment drives us violently crazy.
Kill the culture, and it’ll kill you back.
You’re all racists, and Democrats are mad at you. Be sure to vote for them.
How do you like that? With all the fatzing around with doctors today–three hours of it–I plumb forgot to post my Newswithviews column. So here it is.
Are we really in for a year and several months of this, or are the wheels going to fall off sometime well before Election Day?
As promised, here’s my article on censorship that I wrote for Chalcedon, published last week in The Chalcedon Report.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/a-way-of-censorship
There’s so much going on in the wonderful world of Internet censorship that I hadn’t a prayer of keeping up to date. The story changes by the hour. The only thing that doesn’t change is that Big Tech, in cahoots with the Democrat Party and other Far Left wackos, is trying everything they can think of to stifle conservative voices and manipulate next year’s national elections.
When I call these people neo-Stalinists, I’m not kidding.
I seem to be doing an awful lot of Bible stuff today. Well, when’s a bad time for that?
This heartening essay is by Mark Rushdoony for today’s Chalcedon Blog:
https://chalcedon.edu/blog/as-bright-as-the-promises-of-god
We are not just to believe God’s promises, Mark writes, not just to refrain from doubting them, but “to live in terms of their certainty” and “to live and act in faithfulness to the certainty that He will accomplish it.”
That’s what makes them certainty: He, not we, will accomplish it.
But He does like it when we work with Him.
Come on! This really needs to be dragged out into broad daylight–this whole business of the social media censoring conservatives while giving Far Left a free pass.
The Chalcedon Foundation has been targeted as a “hate group,” and I know some of you have been suspended or banned or censored as “haters.” And when do they ever give you the opportunity to defend yourself? They skip the trial and go right to “guilty.” More often than not, they don’t even tell you why they’ve censored you. Or else it’s because of a false accusation that they never let you answer–and never investigate to make sure that it’s true.
We want a stop put to this! But the first step has to be to expose it, to let everybody know about it, and to get the conversation started.
I’m collecting information for an article, and I’d love to hear from you!
Ignorance can be fixed: we’re all born ignorant. But stupid is forever.
What is stupidity, though? What are its salient characteristics? How do we distinguish its effects from those of disease or injury?
*Stupid was always there. It didn’t start as a hard knock to the head.
*Stupid can’t learn from experience. If fact, stupid people can’t learn at all, mostly because they think they already know everything. Stupid does the same thing again and again, even when it always turns out badly. People who are not stupid can learn from the experience of others, even if that experience is only recorded in a book. But stupid can’t.
*If you’re not stupid, you can look at various factors in play and, by dint of common sense and ordinary prudence, add them up into the most likely outcome. Like, you see cracked ice with water on it, you probably conclude that it would be unwise to try to walk across it. But if you’re stupid, you either never add things up at all, or else come to a completely wrong conclusion for entirely wrong reasons. Like, “I can walk out there because the ice is already cracked so it won’t crack again.”
*Stupid is always drawn to stupid. If you are a jidrool, other jidrools will strike you as really smart and cool people whose company you want to cultivate. You will also think that demonstrably stupid ideas, like socialism, are smart. And genuinely stupid individuals never even suspect that they themselves are stupid. They think they’re wise.
No one has ever devised a way to fix stupidity. What we are good at is spreading it around. Public education, “entertainment,” and our politics ensure an inexhaustible supply of stupid.
If only there were a sure-fire way to undo the damage…
‘No hay pan’ is “We have no bread” in Spanish: Venezuelan slang for ‘Ain’t socialism wonderful?’
Remember what Sun Tzu said, in The Art of War: “On death ground, fight.”
Far Left Crazy means to wipe out Christian America, and won’t let up until it does. The culture war is still on, it’s deadly serious, and Christian America has to win or Christian America dies. It’s that simply.
And never mind being “winsome”!
The time for that is after we’ve won a total victory and the Democrat Party has been forever consigned to the landfill of history.
I lost the whole morning to the eye doctor today, but I’ve still got to come up with a Newswithviews column for this week. Think, think, think!
I’d rather not write about the politics that everybody else is writing about: who needs me for that? So I go back over my blog posts for the past week or so, looking for a topic–usually looking for two or three topics that I can tie together.
It’s not as easy as it sounds.
How about… how about… a nationwide epidemic of boredom? I ran a post on that last week. And from there I can segue into the ongoing efforts by people who should know better to get the whole country stoned on marijuana. It seems a natural tie-in.
And now it’s quarter to two, and I’d better get busy.
Giant Ice Age hyenas–yeah, we’ve got them, too.
I hope you don’t mind me using this opportunity to talk up my book. Until I get invited to do it as a guest on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, this is about the most I can do in terms of publicity.
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know there are times when writing up the nooze just grinds me down. I mean, really–the names of politicians’ lawyers? I believe in being well-informed, but that’s ridiculous.
If this is the first you’ve heard of any books of mine, or my Bell Mountain series of fantasy/adventure novels, and you want to know more–well, you’re already in the right place. Just click “Books” and find out everything you want to know.
In the 19th century, the word “czar” was synonymous with “tyrant.” Today it’s just another goon set up by the central government.
So now Britain’s going to have an “Internet safety czar” to scrub away what’s left of freedom in that unfortunate nation.
We learn in Romans 13 that God ordained the civil government to keep the peace, to protect us from those who would do us harm, and to capture and punish, and restrain, evildoers. A government that does those things deserves our support, even if it’s not a Christian government.
Funny, though, isn’t it? Those who complain the loudest about God’s laws–against fornication, mostly–are always the first in line when it comes to cutting off other people’s freedoms.
For the Left’s definition of “freedom,” see North Korea.
