‘Veritas’ is the Latin word for ‘truth’ and is also the name of a Roman goddess who represents truthfulness and virtue. One individual well known for having his name associated with this word is James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas.
His expressed experience after having been ‘fired’ from his own organization reflects certain principles in common with politics, as recently illustrated by seemingly unrelated accounts of life in North Korea today and life during the fall of the Roman Empire.
In speaking truth to freedom, all of these accounts cite the reality that truth itself – veritas – is a key value and virtue upon which any free society depends. Is it any wonder then that unfree collectivist societies and globalists fear the truth more than almost anything else on the planet?
The eternal fundamental political struggle represented by the political polarities of Left and Right is that between collectivism and individualism. To the degree that a society is collectivist, its citizens have less freedom and less prosperity. To the degree that a society is individualist, both freedom and prosperity are the result. Continue reading »