https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/04/th...rious-age/

Libertarian leaning Democrat Kotkin on the new McCarthyism:

"...In the past the drive for censorship came largely from the right, led by the Catholic Church, which labored hard to impose their morality on films. Now, increasingly, the thought control comes largely from the left, whose allies control virtually all the institutions — media, universities, mainline churches, culture — that establish social norms.

We’ve gone a long way from the summer of love or the Berkeley “free speech” movement. The rules governing new Netflix productions forbid looking at anyone for more than five seconds, or asking for a phone number. As late night comedy tends to be homogeneous and preachy, you won’t likely see a Lenny Bruce or Rodney Dangerfield. Today if someone, like actor Mark Duplass, even suggests that conservatives might be something other than evil, they are forced to recant and grovel for forgiveness....

Writing in 1913 the historian J. B. Bury described the Middle Ages as a place where “a large field … covered by beliefs which authority claimed to impose as true, and reason was warned off the ground.” The current censorious mood, despite its attempt to portray itself as progressive, seems more akin to an unwelcome regression to an ugly, and dogma-plagued, past."

(08-05-2018 08:43 PM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/04/th...rious-age/

Libertarian leaning Democrat Kotkin on the new McCarthyism:

"...In the past the drive for censorship came largely from the right, led by the Catholic Church, which labored hard to impose their morality on films. Now, increasingly, the thought control comes largely from the left, whose allies control virtually all the institutions — media, universities, mainline churches, culture — that establish social norms.

We’ve gone a long way from the summer of love or the Berkeley “free speech” movement. The rules governing new Netflix productions forbid looking at anyone for more than five seconds, or asking for a phone number. As late night comedy tends to be homogeneous and preachy, you won’t likely see a Lenny Bruce or Rodney Dangerfield. Today if someone, like actor Mark Duplass, even suggests that conservatives might be something other than evil, they are forced to recant and grovel for forgiveness....

Writing in 1913 the historian J. B. Bury described the Middle Ages as a place where “a large field … covered by beliefs which authority claimed to impose as true, and reason was warned off the ground.” The current censorious mood, despite its attempt to portray itself as progressive, seems more akin to an unwelcome regression to an ugly, and dogma-plagued, past."

During such periods, so called knowledge is horded, the masses are seldom educated, and people are enslaved. I don't care how many schools we have today, if you don't teach people how to read and think and employ reason for themselves and you don't teach them how to communicate effectively, then you are failing to educate the masses.

What they are being carefully taught is how to look at an electronic device to find their appropriate responses. A drone is a slave.

(08-05-2018 09:45 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(08-05-2018 08:43 PM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/04/th...rious-age/

Libertarian leaning Democrat Kotkin on the new McCarthyism:

"...In the past the drive for censorship came largely from the right, led by the Catholic Church, which labored hard to impose their morality on films. Now, increasingly, the thought control comes largely from the left, whose allies control virtually all the institutions — media, universities, mainline churches, culture — that establish social norms.

We’ve gone a long way from the summer of love or the Berkeley “free speech” movement. The rules governing new Netflix productions forbid looking at anyone for more than five seconds, or asking for a phone number. As late night comedy tends to be homogeneous and preachy, you won’t likely see a Lenny Bruce or Rodney Dangerfield. Today if someone, like actor Mark Duplass, even suggests that conservatives might be something other than evil, they are forced to recant and grovel for forgiveness....

Writing in 1913 the historian J. B. Bury described the Middle Ages as a place where “a large field … covered by beliefs which authority claimed to impose as true, and reason was warned off the ground.” The current censorious mood, despite its attempt to portray itself as progressive, seems more akin to an unwelcome regression to an ugly, and dogma-plagued, past."

During such periods, so called knowledge is horded, the masses are seldom educated, and people are enslaved. I don't care how many schools we have today, if you don't teach people how to read and think and employ reason for themselves and you don't teach them how to communicate effectively, then you are failing to educate the masses.

What they are being carefully taught is how to look at an electronic device to find their appropriate responses. A drone is a slave.

XACLY!

I'm looking to invent the 'jerk glasses smartsy fartsy phone support device' for those jerk-offs.....

today, I would load up on anything orthopedic related to the neck, shoulders, back, hands......

their brains are being massaged by the second at this point......

(08-05-2018 08:43 PM)bullet Wrote:  https://www.ocregister.com/2018/08/04/th...rious-age/

Libertarian leaning Democrat Kotkin on the new McCarthyism:

"...In the past the drive for censorship came largely from the right, led by the Catholic Church, which labored hard to impose their morality on films. Now, increasingly, the thought control comes largely from the left, whose allies control virtually all the institutions — media, universities, mainline churches, culture — that establish social norms.

We’ve gone a long way from the summer of love or the Berkeley “free speech” movement. The rules governing new Netflix productions forbid looking at anyone for more than five seconds, or asking for a phone number. As late night comedy tends to be homogeneous and preachy, you won’t likely see a Lenny Bruce or Rodney Dangerfield. Today if someone, like actor Mark Duplass, even suggests that conservatives might be something other than evil, they are forced to recant and grovel for forgiveness....

Writing in 1913 the historian J. B. Bury described the Middle Ages as a place where “a large field … covered by beliefs which authority claimed to impose as true, and reason was warned off the ground.” The current censorious mood, despite its attempt to portray itself as progressive, seems more akin to an unwelcome regression to an ugly, and dogma-plagued, past."

Yup. Couldnt agree more.

Liberals have done nothing but exchange one prejudice for another while calling that progress.

And it sure is progress.

Progress towards a litmus test that favors only one side.