789 – Word War 3—the weaponization of language

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Dec 152022
 


Thinking rationally requires accurate and precise definitions without which thinking cannot be valid or effective. Since destroying the ability to think is key to the advance of any form of tyranny, this requires the use of anti-concepts – normal words with twisted definitions that do not correspond to reality in any way.

“Misuse of language is the means by which the Marxist cult of communism has done the most serious injury to intelligence,” wrote Isabel Paterson in her monumental work, The God of the Machine.

“Marxist terminology reduces verbal expression to literal nonsense on the basis of fact and usage; the phrase ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is like ‘the roundness of a triangle,’ a contradiction in terms. It has no meaning. This is specifically the language of fools; for the deficiency which is indicated by the word ‘fool’ is the incapacity to understand categories and the relation of things and qualities.”

In other words, everyone on the Left is a fool or has been ‘fooled’ into believing something that is not so.

Perhaps the most foolish concept to surface of late has been the contradictory “round triangle” concept called “stakeholder capitalism.” Described by the king of fools Klaus Schwab as a system in which we will “own nothing and be happy,” his twisted definition is as far from anything to do with capitalism as one can get.

In the realm of political concepts, the Left represents tyranny while the Right represents freedom. So it should not be surprising that the Left projected its own evil on to the Right, by falsely claiming its own ideology of fascism to be “right wing.” This has destroyed the ability of those who accept this lie to even be able to think about the reality of the choices that face them. Believing that they have no choice but the lesser of two evils at two ends of an imaginary non-existent “political spectrum,” many on the Right are blinded from making any choice at all, much to the delight of the Left.

Until more people come to understand what’s Just Right and what distinguishes it from everything Left, Word War 3 may soon no longer just be a war of words.

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787 – The dictatorship of the primitive | Salim Mansur

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Dec 012022
 


In an effort to describe and explain the madness forcing various versions of a “green agenda” upon us, our guest Salim Mansur recently found himself drawn to a series of essays originally compiled in Ayn Rand’s 1971 book “The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.” (re-released in 1999 as “Return of the Primitive” with additional essays by Peter Schwartz on the enduring legacy of the Left.)

“There is something fundamentally primitive in this malady, this profound sickness that has overtaken Western man,” laments Salim. “It was astounding. Everything that Rand wrote about is what we’re living through. This is not a new debate.”

Drawing upon Rand’s symbolic comparison of the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus with the Right and Left respectively, Salim is led unavoidably to the conclusion that the making of civilizations is an individual undertaking, not a collective one.

In the light of that reality, the collectivist wave now enveloping the West can itself be understood to be both the cause and symptom of civilization’s collapse. Continue reading »

Return of the primitive | Salim Mansur

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Nov 302022
 

Actions by Leftists over the years can only lead one to conclude that they are members of a death cult.

Attempts to describe the Left have generally been in economic terms: socialist, fascist, communist, Fabian, etc., but if we go back to 1969 we discover that one philosopher, Ayn Rand, described the Left in a way that stands to this day as accurate and even prophetic.

In her book The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, which was re-released as Return of the Primitive we find an essay that compared the Left to the Greek god Dionysus—the god of insanity, frenzy, and drunkenness and the Right with the god Apollo the “averter of evil,” the god of light, truth, education, and reason.

Rand uses two events of that year, the launch of Apollo 11 and the music festival near Woodstock, to startlingly juxtapose those two elements in society which seem forever at odds with each other—man’s lofty rational nature and his baser bestial nature.

Salim Mansur joins Robert Vaughan to discuss Rand’s insight into the fundamental nature of man and, in particular, the insanity of the Left.

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773 – The Right script—for the love of Good

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Aug 252022
 


Apparently, the Left was never adequately immunized against Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), the political virus that infected Democrats, globalists, the deep state, and the fake news media the first time Trump rose to power. Now the latest variant has emerged, a clear sign that Trump must once again be on the rise.

For example, Carleton University professor and journalist Andrew Cohen in an August 19 editorial “Right follows script after Mar-a-Lago search” wrote “The right exploded. They screamed, they seethed, they snarled. The words were not just shrill, they were terrifying. At times, they encouraged violence. These are the new Republican rules of order in public debate. Rush to judgment. Ignore facts. Enter shooting. Empty your arsenal. Deny. Attack. Restraint is no virtue. Insanity is no vice.”

And then there was American philosopher, author, and podcast host Sam Harris, whose TDS infection has exposed a moral vacuum devoid of any principle or values whatever.

While openly citing evidence demonstrating Biden’s corruption (but offering none regarding Trump), Harris argued “Whatever the scope of Joe Biden’s corruption is… it is infinitesimal compared to the corruption we know Trump is involved in.” This, after proudly proclaiming that he “would not have cared” if Hunter Biden had “the corpses of children in his basement.” Continue reading »

771 – It’s biblical—God, politics, and morality

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Aug 112022
 


It has long been argued that totalitarian nations and tyrannies are a consequence of the “atheistic” philosophies under which they are ruled. However, this is a serious error. It is based on the mistaken view that “atheism” is some kind of philosophy or doctrine, as is the case with theism. But this is not so.

Consider that, unlike the word “theist” which in a proper context identifies what a person is, “atheist” is a negative concept that defines a person in terms of what he is not. In no way can it be reasonably justified on these grounds to conclude that atheists have some kind of “atheist belief system” or philosophy.

In fact, in philosophical and moral terms “atheism” isn’t even a thing. However, tyranny is. That tyrannies may be “atheistic” is mere association; it is not cause and effect. Totalitarian regimes and tyrannies are caused by collectivist ideologies invariably supported by Leftist theists and atheists alike. Similarly, theists and atheists on the Right support freedom and justice.

In the moral and political gulf between freedom and tyranny, the only polarity that matters is the one that contrasts the values of the Left (collectivism) with those of the Right (individualism).

Thus it is unfortunate that some on the “religious right” have been increasingly disparaging atheists, as if atheism is somehow a causal factor behind the current tyranny. In atheism, theists perceive an absence of morality rather than recognizing the presence of alternative moralities grounded on different principles.

On the one hand are those who cannot conceive of morality without faith in a God and afterlife, while on the other there are those who cannot conceive of morality based on anything but reason exercised within a finite limited lifetime.

Fortunately, experience has demonstrated that these metaphysically opposing views do not preclude a shared morality. Whether theist or atheist, what counts in politics is which side of political polarity holds power – Left or Right. Consequently, those on the side of freedom will of necessity eventually gravitate towards those moral alliances held together in an orbit circling the political polarity that is Just Right.

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770 – Witness—to the Freedom Convoy | Andrew Lawton

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Aug 042022
 


As an eye-witness to Canada’s infamous Ottawa Freedom Convoy last winter, our guest Andrew Lawton can count himself among the front-line warriors in an Information War that has killed and injured as many people as any war could.

Andrew’s experience has been published in his book: The Freedom Convoy – The Inside Story Of Three Weeks That Shook The World (Sutherland House, 2022). As a first-hand account of what happened during the Freedom Convoy’s presence in Ottawa, this book stands in stark contrast to the official narrative and the still-so-called mainstream media.

Notably, the Freedom Convoy was not an organized event in the common understanding of that term. It was entirely organic, with no single leader, group, or organization having masterminded what proved to be among the most peaceful protest rallies in history.

It was perhaps this very lack of a centralized authority that has made it so difficult for Trudeau’s fascist government to create a false narrative applicable to all of the participants. After all, the single issue that united them was the very issue his government did not want to face – his government’s tyranny justified by Covid lies.

The two sides in this information war do not merely disagree. Indeed, officialdom and the mainstream mediocre insist that no debates or disagreements even be allowed, preferring outright censorship, false reports, and physically attacking the messengers rather than offer any justifications for their mandates and proclamations.

The lesson to be learned from the Freedom Convoy is universal. Tyrants fear truth above all. They know that once exposed to the truth, each individual can decide on his own which side is telling the lies, and which side has been Just Right all along.

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769 – Hardwired to reality—definitions and gender

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Jul 282022
 


There may be a variety of reasons why so many people are unable or unwilling to answer the question: “What is a Woman?” But after reviewing Matt Walsh’s documentary of the same name, one might be left with the impression that we are on the brink of civilization’s collapse.

The degree of confusion, fear, terror, hostility, evasion, and even indifference that was encountered at the mere asking of a simple definition tells a story far greater than any particular specific word in question. Worse, among the few who did offer their definition of “woman,” the answers were subjective and incorrect.

Of all the words in the English language, one would think that the word “woman” is about as innocuous as it gets. But not so. What by definition and by every rule of language is a binary concept distinguishing male from female has become a political and epistemological battleground on which concepts are being destroyed along with the ability to communicate.

However, reality exists, and every functioning human mind is “hardwired” to that reality, a connection that persists even in the attempt to deny or avoid it. The creation of definitions that do not correspond to reality or reason has been the primary political weapon of the so-called “trans-gender” community. Theirs is a misguided campaign against the reality that men are men and women are women and that that distinction is always a binary one. Continue reading »

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