" He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell - "1984"

The corruption of power coupled with Fallen Man's constitutional susceptibility to believing lies.

An unholy combination.

P. S.

As Stalin expressed it:

" Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

In this day, the true totalitarian-barbarians
are the self-ordained arbiters of ideological purity, the pharasaic thought police of what
is characterized as being "political correctness."

Their puerile, rooted in resentment, animated by animus, creed is sustained by nothing more than their idolization of their psychotically highly idealized self concepts and their illusive notions of the nobility of what they prefer to esteem to be their good intentions.

The ascension of "political correctness" is a horrifically certain measure of the actuality of the cataclysmic moral and sociocultural declension of our civilization.

Thank you, E.

The most certain measure of the degree of the declension of any civilization is the extent of the proliferation of laws nominally intended to constrain the evolving lawlessness of its population.

Unquestionably, the low road to serfdom.

" We hold these Truths to be self evident..."

In this day of the harrowing involution, in actuality, inversion of faith and values, a quote commonly ascribed to G. K. Chesterton seems salient:

" He who will not believe in God will believe in anything."

Not excluding the myth that government is God.

In this nation, in this day, journalism is hardly being practiced.

Necessarily so, since those who comprise the contemporary American journalistic class, virtually en masse, steeped in statist ideology as they are, want for probity, integrity, moral authority, gravity and credibility.

Without alternative news media, which in this day constitute, effectively, a latter day American rendering of the Soviet era Samizdat, the informational terrain would be an utter wasteland.

Tragically, the Fourth Estate long ago became a Fifth Column.

Mike, among lightless "progressives", Lysenkoism lives.

" For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

Proverbs 23:7

Ultimately, are there any others who are more nearly "ignorant" than are they whose knowledge is uninformed by understanding?

Knowledge, decoupled from understanding, is deadly to the Human Race.

A polity is only as virtuous as are they who people it.

The perfecting of any polity primarily is a process of the perfecting of the ability of its
population to perceive reality in the Light of Reality.

The early brilliance of the American Republic was born of, based upon, the brilliance of the Illuminated Reason of its Founders and a plurality of its population.

As the noble John Adams expressed it:

" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Man departed Eden millenia ago.

Realistically, for Fallen Man, the American Republic that we are ceasing to know and enjoy has been as "good" as it has ever gotten.

Human beings are creatures of faith and
belief.

Accordingly, the pride and fear born defensiveness, illiberalty and intolerance of contemporary "liberals" is rooted in the rootlessness of their figmentary, fragmentary, belief systems.

Any who have wholly invested themselves in beliefs that are inherently indefensible will, necessarily, be militantly defensive, and offensive, in their defense of them.

In the absence of an Objective standard of Goodness, of what is it that "goodness" is constituted?

Historically, there has been no dearth of those who, as Isaiah expresses it, "...call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter..."

It remains so that the road to perdition is paved with "good" intentions...

Ultimately, the Truth must prevail, since nothing substantial underlies the conceits of deceit other than Fallen Man's predisposition to believing lies.

Human beings belief in unreality cannot serve to render it Reality.

There exist principled means of suasion other than the cunning manipulation of human being's emotions, by necessary extension, their perception of Reality, signal among which are appeals to reason.

Unfailingly, it is the will to possess power that animates and underlies the exploitation, by power mongers, of devices of the warping of human perception of Reality.

All such devices are inherently malign, contrivances as they are of the archetype of all unholy power seekers, Beelzebub himself.

As it is written:

"Come no, let us reason together, saith the Lord..."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish:
but he who keepeth the Law, happy is he."

Proverbs 29:18

The morbid dearth of discernment that is being exhibited by multitudes in this benighted day is a stark monument to the effect that the cataclysmic declension of morality, of values consequently, is having.

In the absence of morality, there is an absence of objectivity, thus an impoverishment of discernment, the presence of which is prerequisite to the taking of rightly informed decisions.

A principled person's decisions are taken for him or her.

The seeds of the destruction of every civilization, seeds such as are present at its very inception, are the frailties that inhere in Fallen Human Nature.

We are, without question, existing in a day of tyranny of the infinitesimal minority.

In this day of nearly absolute moral and sociocultural inversion, it is characteristically those factions that have historically been the least influential who are exercising ever heightening, truly unholy, influence.

A stark testament to the actuality of the nation's having entered a New Dark Age.

The nominal egalitarians, among us, esteem themselves to be the most virtuous, the most enlightened, the most worthy among us.

It is not that they do not believe that any ought to be privileged, it is that they believe that it is only they who ought to be privileged.
How egalitarian of them.

What Virtue exists to constrain the ambition of any for whom the acquisition of power is an objective, in itself?

Commonly, their approach is an incremental one or, as Lenin expressed it, one of "slicing the bologna."

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."

Isaiah 5:20

Ideology does not constitute Reality.

The cardinal virtue for which ideologues characteristically want is Humility.

Religionists whom they are, their illusive, predicated upon Pride, notions of themselves are integrally connected to their allegiance to their resentment infused and informed, necessarily psychopathological, ideologies.

Existing, as they do, in states of ideology circumscribed bondage, they unfailingly are perfect studies in ideational inflexibility.