Freedom Tower:
The
New York City Freedom Tower… Why call
it Freedom Tower? Was America
previously unfree, but is free now? Nonsense! Does it have something to do with
America’s freedom victorious in its war against the perpetrators of 9/11? Hardly!
The so-called “war on terror” is
admittedly still going on. Meanwhile, on the domestic front, American freedom
has suffered a serious setback since 2001, a setback beyond Osama bin Laden’s
wildest dreams, and well beyond his al Qaeda’s maximum capacity…
So,
whose freedom are we talking about? Certainly not about the freedom of the
incessantly terrorized people of the ‘liberated’ Iraq, many of whom, Shiahs
prominently included, are today nostalgic for the stability of Saddam Hussein’s
brutal regime. Certainly not about
the freedom of the Afghanis, or the Libyans under the post-Qaddafi chaos, or
the Palestinians under their newly gained quasi-statehood… Generally speaking,
the world at large is a terrible place these days, and the word “freedom” sounds like a very cruel joke…
Apparently,
this word comes out with a twist, in the new “Freedom Tower.” “Freedom” in the new century means being
pro-American. The people of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are freedom people, just because their rulers are pro-American… Those
who do not obey Washington’s guidelines of freedom, are slaves in need of
liberation… Easy! That’s “Freedom Tower.”
Freedom Talkers:
Never
in my previous life had I imagined that the word “freedom” would
one day be making me sick. But so it does today, and I wonder what they are thinking,
all these cynical scoundrels and intellectual perverts who say freedom in
that most obnoxious sense of the word.
The
freedom talkers of America, both the brainwashers and the brainwashed---
what are they thinking when they say this word which they obviously do
not understand as they never have traveled to its pristine source themselves,
and never have forfeited their eye as the price of knowledge?
Freedom Thinkers:
There
is an unbridgeable chasm between the authentic free thinkers and these
manipulative freedom talkers, who use the word freedom in order
to enslave. And, alas, as I have repeatedly pointed out, it is much easier to
enslave the relaxed minds of free-talking citizens of ‘free societies’ than the
intensely watchful minds of the free-thinking citizens of the world’s most
oppressive tyrannies. Indeed, as the following shocking, but convincing
argument made by my family friend and professional colleague General Mikhail
Milstein, goes:
“Our
Soviet public, in terms of its susceptibility to propaganda, is much better off
than in a country such as America. Here (in Russia) everyone knows that our
agitprop people are doing their job, and take what they hear always with a
large grain of salt. But in America people are so sincerely convinced that they
are free, that their minds are really careless and willing to be played with.
Yes, they may all be street smart as much as they want to be, but in politics
they are pretty gullible to propaganda, as long as they do have their little
vanity toy to play with: the “choice,” the two-party system, obligingly
allowing them to make up their own mind as to whose mush they will be having
for breakfast for the next four years.”
Thus,
it follows that for the purposes of genuine freedom, free thought is of far
greater importance than free speech. What can be worse than “controlled” free
speech, the speech of ignorance and propaganda?
Free Speech:
Incidentally,
free speech, the one, which is so much protected in Western democracies and so
much abused in other places, should be indeed controlled in all societies, but
not by suppressing it, as is usually the case in all controlled societies, but
simply by denying it the authority of “ipse dixit.” For, it is customary
for the people anywhere, but especially in free societies to bow to the
authority of an authority, if I may put it this way. It is the bowing to
the authority, which cheapens the value of free speech in free societies,
making the citizens easy prey for manipulation and brainwashing.
At
the same time, I have sadly witnessed the fact that even in free societies, and
America is most certainly one of their foremost, there are many ways, both
crude and refined, to control free speech, allowing filth or mere trivium to
pass as free speech, as long as it is politically harmless to the power elite,
while effectively suppressing the speech, which the elite sees as threatening
to their status quo, that is to their hold on power. This suppression of
“dangerous” (sometimes known as politically incorrect) speech reaches
such levels of forcefulness, that the only difference between the free us and
the unfree them, meaning, of course, between free and unfree societies,
will be the severity of punishment for the persons who are the
actual perpetrators. Meanwhile, the actual punishment for the chief offender
herself, free speech, is effectively the same, which is the capital
punishment of silence.
Last Word:
And
now the last word on this matter. If the harshness of my judgment sounds
excessive, I should refer my reader to some other sections of the book,
particularly, to Russia and the Lady. Why is it, I used to be
asked fairly often, that I’m the only one speaking of such things? In the past
I used to think that what I was saying others may not have known. These days I
realize that the reason why nobody knows the things which are so elementary in
my mind is not some general ignorance about them, but a conspiracy of silence
tantamount to the suppression of free speech. While I have not been denied the
opportunity of ‘free speech,’ to which this blog, plus a few published articles
of mine bear witness, my free speech has been rendered worthless by denying it
the authority which comes with a successful career, and we all know that a
successful career possesses such an authority that one can easily pass around
counterfeit money as the legitimate coin of the realm.
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