{"id":41704,"date":"2020-03-30T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41704"},"modified":"2020-03-29T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T16:20:54","slug":"qotd-free-speech-is-the-safety-valve-we-must-not-eliminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/03\/30\/qotd-free-speech-is-the-safety-valve-we-must-not-eliminate\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Free speech is the safety valve we must not eliminate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>[W]hen you’re a peddler of Utopia, you can’t admit you’re wrong or that your methods are crazy. After all, your cult of Marx (a college-professor friend recently shocked his students by pointing out Marx is a 19th century western idea \u2014 born of the mechanical age and the idea you can make everything just so \u2014 and that imposing this interpretation on non-Western systems is colonialist) promises eventual paradise and world domination. You can’t be wrong. It would mean your whole life has been in vain, and everything you’ve been taught is a lie.<\/p>\n

The system might have moved the downtrodden from those “exploited” by the industrial revolution, to “minorities” “third world people” and people with interesting colorations \u2014 mostly because the “exploited” workers kept rising up in the world and spitting in the eye of Marx, the ungrateful bastages \u2014 but it’s totally still true and the way of the future. Even if it requires conceptualizing a future where no one works and everything is free, since they’ve now tossed the “workers” out of their ideal society. (Again, ungrateful bastages who don’t know how “good” the intellectuals are for them.) But it is totally the future!<\/p>\n

So all those people who say that it’s still spinach and to hell with it? They’re just trying to destroy the train of happiness leading to the station of utopia.<\/p>\n

Which means they must be silenced. If they’re just silenced, then the system will work fine, and everyone will be happy and joyful.<\/p>\n

So the latest attack is on free speech. Because free speech can be hurty and say things the left doesn’t want to hear. Bad bad free speech must be stopped.<\/p>\n

They already have laws against “hate speech” or “harassment”, which according to a comment here is “saying something I don’t like more than once” in most of the world.<\/p>\n

The US is holding fast in our unreasonable devotion to the first amendment which irks the left as much as our devotion to the second. Don’t we understand that bad speech hurts people? And leads to bad think?<\/p>\n

In any institution they control, from companies code of conduct to deplatforming people on twitter, to Google strangling hits to dissenting blogs, etc, they are already silencing that nasty, evil feedback.<\/p>\n

Because if only they don’t hear the whistles of rising steam, the engine will never explode.<\/p>\n

Cotton stuffed in their ears, they keep feeding more coal to the engine of public opinion and stopping up the steam vents.<\/p>\n

The end of this is what happened to Ceausescu and his repulsive wife: “Beloved leader of the morning, pile of cooling, bullet riddled meat in the afternoon.”<\/p>\n

But they don’t see it. They’re convinced if they just stop the feedback, the machine will work fine.<\/p>\n

And they’re going to take all of us into the explosion. Mind you, in the end we win, they lose, but it’s going to get very rough there for a while.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately when dealing with true believers, there’s nothing you can do but let them utterly prove their system wrong, before sane people can build again.<\/p>\n

Sarah Hoyt, “Breaking the Gears”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2018-01-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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