You cannot control speech anymore ... not in this age. The left today is all about control not freedom, the very opposite of what was a liberal in the previous century, but those individuals soon realize they cannot control anything and as a result become more frustrated and dangerous to others and liberty and society in general. And the right, which in previous centuries was about conserving the past, such as traditions and thus called conservatives, has almost switched places with the liberals of the past and have largely become the stalwarts for less government, less control, more free speech, some to the extent they are almost anarchists on the extreme side of liberty. Actually the conservatives in America have been representitive of such liberty for a long time, while some in Europe have been Royalists and so on.
Whatever side, and my opinion the left today is the example of control freaks who think they can control and govern even the entire weather, "control" is rapidly becoming beyond their rather simplistic hands. Today the communists in China and the mullahs in Iran are finding control more and more difficult when it comes to the propagation of ideas and speech good or bad. In the US, where the Obamanists want to now control content on the internet, they will totally fail in the end even though they will slow down capitalist driven technology in the beginning, in the end every person will easily be able to circumvent their every effort to control speech and will cheaply and easily setup their own "super highways" of "information" - arrests on "hate crime" by the left will also fail because the speech of others WILL get to their audience be it anonymous, and widely will do so, and even those in government who think they can "control" others are not so smart as they think and themselves will have their "outlets" of control "attacked" and silenced themselves in relalition.
Sometimes I try to explain the origins of modern Islamic extremism which is a political movement started in the former North West Province of what was once part of India that glorified an Empire, the Ottoman, as a "utopia" by power hungry Muslim politicians who never lived in the Ottoman Empire and built a fantasy to the villagers they wanted to influence so they could try and take control of, this along with adopting terror and fake propaganda such as "The Elders of Zion" rode on the wave of the cheap printing press of the time, took to pamphlets and to aggrievance politics, the cheap printing press could not be stopped. It then spread to the Middle East and Arabia, in the ME the socialist Baathists took up the mantra for their own agendas of dictatorship but both there and back in Pakistan they lost control of the very villagers they wanted to inspire who actually started to believe this nonsense.
Today the same we see from the left in the West. Be it for good intentions or bad intentions (typically the later) the fact is they will not be able to control anything. So better to project better ideas than control, and prove it with success. That is the way. But I largely see failure, and perhaps there is no "answer", often those who say they have the "solution" only take us to "final solutions" which result in mass famine and death and cults.
Whatever side, and my opinion the left today is the example of control freaks who think they can control and govern even the entire weather, "control" is rapidly becoming beyond their rather simplistic hands. Today the communists in China and the mullahs in Iran are finding control more and more difficult when it comes to the propagation of ideas and speech good or bad. In the US, where the Obamanists want to now control content on the internet, they will totally fail in the end even though they will slow down capitalist driven technology in the beginning, in the end every person will easily be able to circumvent their every effort to control speech and will cheaply and easily setup their own "super highways" of "information" - arrests on "hate crime" by the left will also fail because the speech of others WILL get to their audience be it anonymous, and widely will do so, and even those in government who think they can "control" others are not so smart as they think and themselves will have their "outlets" of control "attacked" and silenced themselves in relalition.
Sometimes I try to explain the origins of modern Islamic extremism which is a political movement started in the former North West Province of what was once part of India that glorified an Empire, the Ottoman, as a "utopia" by power hungry Muslim politicians who never lived in the Ottoman Empire and built a fantasy to the villagers they wanted to influence so they could try and take control of, this along with adopting terror and fake propaganda such as "The Elders of Zion" rode on the wave of the cheap printing press of the time, took to pamphlets and to aggrievance politics, the cheap printing press could not be stopped. It then spread to the Middle East and Arabia, in the ME the socialist Baathists took up the mantra for their own agendas of dictatorship but both there and back in Pakistan they lost control of the very villagers they wanted to inspire who actually started to believe this nonsense.
Today the same we see from the left in the West. Be it for good intentions or bad intentions (typically the later) the fact is they will not be able to control anything. So better to project better ideas than control, and prove it with success. That is the way. But I largely see failure, and perhaps there is no "answer", often those who say they have the "solution" only take us to "final solutions" which result in mass famine and death and cults.
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