Sean Hannity Won't Save You

Silverfiddle Rant!

... but Tucker Carlson, Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald just might.

  

Salvation from totalitarian progressivism will not come from the Republican Party, nor will it come from the right.  It will come from the liberal left and non-aligned allies, including the Intellectual Dark Web .  

Many good liberals are getting stomped as well (Bret Weinstein and Anna Khachiyan for example), and are fighting back. 

Contrary to popular opinion, Sandy Cortez is not the future of American leftism; she is the last baby bubble burp of the old socialism of that shabby communist Bernie Sanders.  

I don't know how many people are in Sandy and Grandpa Bernie's neo-bolshevik camp versus how many are in the anti-totalitarian camp, but I know there is a substantial number of people on the left who are fed up with all this warmed-over 20th century totalitarian bullshit. 

Scholars of color like Glenn Loury and John McWhorter are blatantly calling Ibrahim Khendi, Robin DiAngelo and Nikole Hannah Jones frauds.  Professors at Cambridge have pushed  back recently on minor issues involving speech, and have won.  

That has happened in other universities as well, and it is left liberals within the institution, speaking the institutional language and appealing to the foundational principles of the institution.  That is how freedom wins. We can join in by stating our values clearly in a non-inflammatory way while respecting the considered views of others. And it will have to happen everywhere:  Hollywood, social media, the press, government, and private business. And I think it can.

We are not alone.  There is a whole world of thought and speech out there pushing back against the progressive totalitarians.  They seriously analyze, joyfully mock and openly flout totalitarian progressive orthodoxy and speech codes.  Many are self-described leftists and liberals, some are libertarians, but they all share a love of truth and liberty that transcends boundaries and labels. 

I commend to you the following individuals, web sites and podcasts in no particular order.  You won't always agree, but you will be educated and entertained. 

In no particular order...

* Matt Taibbi - Astute observer, brilliant liberal journalist taking down progressive totalitarianism 

* Glenn Greenwald - solid gold journalism

* Spiked Podcast (Brendan O'Neill) and Website

* Quillette podcast and website - IDW Flagship - Always excellent discussions

* Glenn Loury podcast - Wise professor who shares lessons learned

* Bret Weinstein podcast - Scholarly discussion

* Eric Weinstein podcast - Scholarly discussion

* Making Sense podcast (Sam Harris) - He will probably make you mad, but he is a great example of how to properly characterize the point of view you disagree with and then civilly argue against it, while conceding points and empathizing with those who you disagree with

* Joe Rogan - Trenchant discussion.  He brings on smart people and asks questions everyday people would ask.

* The Fifth Column - Raucous, rambling discussion of current events.  Irreverent and often vulgar, traditional conservatives would not like it.

* Blocked and Reported (vapid sounding lefty gurls busting on political correctness).  Also probably not for traditional conservatives

* Red Scare (Anna Khachiyan and and Dasha Nekrasova)

Intellectual Dark Web

Top 10 Anti-Woke Heroes of 2020

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Tune in Thursday!

Surfing is Not a Crime!

Silverfiddle Rant!

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”
--Winston Churchill

We are suffering a weaponized Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy inflicted upon us by unhappy, corroded-soul government overlords at the local, county, state and federal level, egged on by the Infotainment Media Complex.

It started innocently enough years ago, with them nagging us to save the environment by reducing our carbon footprint; preaching cleanses and purges of various bodily organs, orifices and passages; exhorting us with vapid "spiritual" nostrums and feel-good nonsense they come up with in a vain attempt to fill their God hole.

Those petty despots scolding us and ordering us around are fundamentally unhappy people, and they are pouncing on this opportunity to destroy the happiness of others. Their greek chorus of the proletariat are fundamentally fearful--of the unknown, others, themselves, whatever--and they are spreading that fear to millions of others, and what a thin balm it must be to their troubled psyches.

Community Cluster Funk

Socioclasts channeling their internal Woodrow Wilson see their big opportunity to remake the messy, chaotic American landscape, knock it down, destroy the foundations and start all over:  They want to redesign your pathetic, selfish, random life, to include establishing permanent perimeters around each individual, tracking our movements and contacts, redesigning our public spaces, and regulating your private life, to include approving the friends and family you respectfully request to include in your lockdown bubbles and social clusters.

Because We Say So

Ordering everyone in the nation to wear a face covering and huff their own carbon dioxide (except under very narrow circumstances) is an absurdity, especially when outdoors. Are the Standard Bearers of Science taking us back to the discredited miasma theory?  The purpose of a mask it to prevent you from spraying droplets at others when coughing or sneezing.  It would make more sense to tell everyone to carry a hanky and if you have to cough or sneeze, to do so in the hanky, you know, like you grandparents did.

Lab Rats

The scientists and medical experts admonishing us to cower in our homes, are throwing all “abundance of caution” to the wind in order to recklessly deliver a Covid-19 vaccine on dangerously shortened timeline of 12-18 months, when the usual, safety-conscious process takes five to 15 years.

Bonus Question

How does surfing or swimming in the ocean spread the virus and endanger the community? This is like a bizzaro version of the old movie Footloose, but instead of Concerned Local Authorities banning dancing because it might lead to sex, they are banning surfing because it may lead to people gathering and socializing and having FUN.