Train Arrives at Train Station
The cultural formation of the last decade, in which disagreement is hate speech and facts are disinformation, ends here, and can only end here:
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It ends with a political culture that literally does nothing but chant its slogans. Watch this and see what it is:
The punishment of intellectual heterodoxy, the narrowing of the public sphere, the emptying of debate: chanting. It ends in mindless chanting, and had to end in mindless chanting. People who conform their minds to the correct boundaries of thought in the period of manufactured cultural revolution lose the ability to speak. It’s been seventy-four years since George Orwell called the discourse of unchecked radical politics “duckspeak,” an empty noise like an animal’s angry quacking. Look at it and see it. We’re here. These are former people who had the political discipline to empty their minds. They succeeded.
I know you probably don't have a lot of readers left on the "left", but I have a question for those who still remain:
If -- because of politics -- you now claim that men came become women by saying they are and that we must perform "gender-affirming" surgeries on minors................is there any limit at all to what you're willing to say for your team? Is there a line that is "too much"?
(I expect most of your readers crossed that line long ago)
The comparison that keeps coming up for me is with the people who came to power with the French and Russian Revolutions. They were completely ideological, and they made no attempt to convince their critics.