I am a subject in a kingdom of lies. At 57, I have grown up with decades of untruth — advanced for the purposes of purported social unity, the noble aim of egalitarianism, and the advancement of a cognitive elite in government, journalism, the arts, and the universities.Read the the entire, outstanding, piece.
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I did not quite know how “witch hunt” characterized the often disreputable tactics of Joe McCarthy — cruel and obnoxious were the better adjectives. You see, there were really communists in Hollywood at a time of a dangerous global cold war against communism, in a way there were never any witches at all in Salem.
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The media is our ministry of truth of the Oceania brand: one day Guantanamo, renditions, tribunals, preventive detention, Predators, the Patriot Act, and Iraq were bad; then one day in January 2009 I woke up and heard of them not all bad [3]. I then recognized that they were now either good or at least necessary — or perhaps sinister IEDs of a sort left behind by the nefarious Emmanuel Goldstein administration, now too dangerous to even touch.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Welcome to the Kingdom of Lies
In which Victor Davis Hanson outdoes himself:
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I read the piece and agree with practically everything Hanson stated. Hollywood tried to demonize McCarthy and glorified the Commies. To this day they continue and it has infiltrated Washington with Marxist/Socialist influence along with the Chicago-style.
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