Will the Censors Win?
Will the Censors Win?
Paul Craig Roberts
The Internet is seen as a savior that will take over
the function of honest reporting and free speech now that the print and TV
media and NPR serve as the Ministry of Propaganda. This is true only
if people migrate from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so forth, to the
alternatives that do not block content at odds with official explanations.
Unfortunately, people tend to be stuck in their ways.
They are accustomed to Google, Facebook, and Twitter, don’t know of the
alternatives, and if they did, are disinclined to spend their time to set up
differently.
Liberal America created a society that is heavily into
denunciation, a primary function of social media. Even icons of the
left are denounced when they fall behind the pace of hatred set by Identity
Politics. See: https://www.rt.com/news/453482-liberal-icons-dared-express-opinion/
As for free speech, Western society has reached the
point where anyone who expresses an opinion finds themselves grovelling in
apologies. Debate is nonexistent. A person’s opinions are fashioned
for the person, who still has to be careful to express the current opinion of
the moment, and not yesterday’s version or the one an hour ago.
The result is an unsupporting milieu for truth.
This website is independent of official explanations
and political correctness. In the 21st Century Western world, it is
impossible to tell the truth and not be demonized. Demonization of
truth scares away those who have been taught that they cannot have an opinion
of their own.
If the American people, indeed the Western world, are
to have a future, it will be due to websites such as this one. Support
of this website is a strike against The Matrix.
Some readers suggest that I should take advantage of
the large readership and have ads. That would be the end of the
website. Ads are the way they control you and corrupt you. A website dependent
on ads is in Google’s clutches. If you say the wrong thing, there go
the ads and the website’s financing. If you say the right things, in
comes the money and out goes the truth. The website becomes just
another hired voice.
This is why this website depends on donations from
those who can think for themselves. My readers, for the most part,
are seeking information, not confirmation of their biases.
The donors are very supportive of the website. The
vast majority of donors contribute monthly. My quarterly appeals are
to the many readers who do not support the website.
Truth has never had an easy time, but in the 21st
Century there is an all out war against truth. Agendas are
prevailing over truth. People need to support the few places truth
can still be found.
In the 20th Century there were liberal and
conservative philanthropic foundations that supported the First Amendment and
dissident opinion. No more. The conservative foundations have fallen
to the neoconservatives and their agenda of American (and Israeli) hegemony. The
liberal foundations have been aligned with Identity Politics and pump money
into the destruction of social cohesion. There is no big money for
truth. The task of supporting truth lies with ordinary everyday
people.
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