Anchors in a Sea of Chaos
The only anchor will be precisely what our rationalist Enlightenment society pushed to the background: loyalty to ethical principles even if it means losing whatever you possess in the world of appearances.
The only anchor will be precisely what our rationalist Enlightenment society pushed to the background: loyalty to ethical principles even if it means losing whatever you possess in the world of appearances.
The core principle of fair competition must take precedence in this context.
Events across the UK, and also more locally, highlight how fundamental rights are being consistently challenged. This is Part One of a two-part Substack looking at the concerning dynamics in play.
Big Tech is already censoring discussion of Australian election issues.
All repressive and authoritarian regimes, from Caracas to Pyongyang, suppress speech. Rulers like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or China’s Xi Jinping cannot tolerate truth, as it can threaten their hold on power.
Focusing public attention on what the New Normal ‘authorities’ are doing, not just here in Germany, but throughout the West, not just to me, but to many, many others just like me, is one of the only weapons we have to fight back.
Elon Musk is clearly over the target and the Establishment is terrified.
In the current arrangement, Big Tech gets to keep their quasi-monopolies and the government gets to wield the threat of antitrust to ensure compliance with censorship requests. That cozy relationship needs disrupting.
This is an outrageous and gross constitutional overreach by police. This cannot be over-emphasised. Police do not make the laws. They must stop all activity in this space immediately and delete all the data that they have illegally collected.
This is about the authorities prosecuting government critics like me on fabricated charges, banning our books, and censoring our political speech. Once a government starts doing that, the protections in its constitution no longer matter.
There’s no doubt that the left is out to undermine our freedoms. They’re coming for our churches, our schools, our faith-based organisations, our farms, our mines, our cars and, most of all, our children.
This is yet another cost of perpetuating an official narrative without evidence.