The repugnant emotional reactivity that endeavors to stifle
free speech is a form of post-modern cowardice. Any efforts to suppress
or otherwise invoke censorship over the free exercise in the exchange of
thinking processes is an act of tyranny.
In an age of infotainment,
over vast reaches of electronic communication systems, to oppress or
other restrict any form of interpersonal communication portends horrific
consequences. Shutting down free speech in any format demonstrates
unethical and socially regressive temper tantrums “adult children”.
Often misunderstand, in all likelihood as a result of an intellectually
devolving society, the censorship defense of “shouting fire” exposes
egregious misinformation in order to condescend the free exercise of
communicative exchanges. As such, every genre of creativity, from the
artistry of photography to the movie making personifications of
inventive storytelling ought to rise up in outrage. Of writers,
journalists and poets, the tenor of dissent of ethical necessity demands
immediate redress of grievances. Tyranny rises when discourse is
restricted. (Continued below.....)
(...Continued.....)To paraphrase and otherwise reflect upon on journalist’s admonition
on free speech, offers a critical guideline. Of that, the writer on
point here brings to bear the writings of noteworthy exponents on issues
of freedom of expression. Such notable personalities as John Milton,
Thomas Payne, and John Stuart Mill for example, strenuously expounded on
the necessity of personal liberty. With regard to an imperfect
summation, it is duly noted that the speaker has a right to speak, and
the listener is obliged to listen. Of such actions, for the civility of
interpersonal interactions and advancement of civil discourse, it is
essential to ensure a two-way process. Each party is courteously
obligated to freely interact speaking, listening and cooperating
productively. Prosocial benefits derive from the dissentious nature of
oppositional and contentious points of view. Freedom, particularly in
matters of verbal expression, become woefully disingenuous and
potentially irrelevant when people are silenced because they are
different.
In the contemporary social media and mainstream media, of all the
infotainment corporate industrial complex, the atmosphere of censorship
contrives to circumvent the First Amendment. By dismantling the first
one, it follows that the others are in line for further degradation of
individual rights and safeguards from oppressive incursions. For the
growing oligarchic collusions of the more powerful and influential
members of society, the wealthy and the politically connected, the
republic is in danger. The cowardice of censorship expresses the peril.
In the vast reaches of social psychobabble, inviting the communal
incestuous aberration of the cult of personality, the invective of
infantile narcissism degrades the viability of intelligent ascension.
Stupidity knows no boundaries for its advocates piously embrace the
mantra of self-serving cognitive bias and immediate gratification. With
frauds and fools lurking everywhere, relishing in their enslavement of
complacent despair, the viability of an evolved society wanes toward
final extinction. As such, one reflection from the past, espoused by a
17th century philosopher observed that government has no divine right to
dictate censorship over the people. Instead, the people tell the
government how governing is going to carried out. For those cowardly
enough to submit their parasitic subservience to alleged “authority”,
they can rely on the more sinister among us to erode their freedoms.
While none of this current concern about censorship is new, the
historicity is often forgotten given the ignorance of most people.
As mainstream society in general, with overlording by the
infotainment industry, wallows in the safe mediocrity of gluttonous
consumption, malevolent personalities ascend to the national stage to
fool the majority. By cowardly acts of “cancel culture” exploitation,
along with the insidious perpetrations of “political correctness”, the
wussification of society insists upon the “dumbing down” of the
populace. From pundits a plenty, simplistic commentary opined by the
voices of childlike immaturity castigate any oppositional attempts at
rational indignation. Particularly complicit in the collusion of
illusions is the bloated arrogance of “celebrity worship”. From
Hollywood elites, to the snobbery of the wealthy upper classes, the
superficiality of the status quo speaks loudly to the entitlement of
hypocritical self-righteousness. And to this, for every witch hunt, for
each contrivance of accusation without lawful substantiation, therein
resides the motivation to invoke terroristic acts upon others. Tyranny
wears a human face.
Echoing the concerns of the 17th century social philosopher
previously mentioned, dire consequences for American society await the
incursions of censorship. Liberties erode as “paradise is lost” as a
result of the emotional reactivity to silence free speech. To be exposed
to competing ideas, differences and disagreements, including
controversies of one nature or another is at the very core of
liberation. For that elegance of unique existence, pursuing the free
expression of ideological varieties for the exposure of veracity, based
on evidentiary factuality, is an extraordinary expression of a wiser
enlightenment. Instead, disguised as adults, children desire the
dictatorial condescension of enforced adherence to a warped sense of
regressive consensus. In the social media advancement of complicitous
stupidity, a few valiant insist on rebellion.
In the contemporary annals of cowardly cancel culture, the
pontificators of the celebrity worship, guru deification and pundits of
pussification enjoy the salacious arrogance of stupidity. As they
proselytize the commonality of regressive infantile narcissism, the
collective advocates of simplistic magical thinking erode the vitality
and potency of individual liberation. Oppositional contentiousness
relies on the mainstream population to be ill-informed, complacent and
mundanely committed to lethargy of pacified consensus. Invoking risky
countermeasures, braver members of the social expanse assert the
differentiated perspective of independent thought and deviation from the
contrived normalcy of political, social and economic subservience. As
to a historic notion of “radical free speech”, wiser speculations from
an earlier century provoked the dangerous exhibitions of speaking
fearlessly regardless of retribution. Proclaimed ages ago, and
frequently forgotten, overshadowed by the convenience of “shouting fire
in a theater”, the ghostly admonition mocked the hesitance to
substantiate the higher order of free speech.
In one article, from an established oracle of political analysis, the
speculative query of a noted magazine publication ponders the very
notion of behavioral oppression. From an experience perspective, a
writer ponders the efficacy of a society controlling the free exercise
of verbal expression. To what extent a cultural sector, or a society in
general may diminish the role of individuality depends on what those in
power can get away with. For the predilection of tyranny by
corporate-state collusions, or social networking contrivances, the
future of personal independence stares precariously into an abyss of
troubling possibilities. While governments are arguably a potential
threat to individual freedom, other human entities are as much a
provocative adversary to individuality. In the post-modern context, the
accumulation of power by way of social media oligarchies, as well as
multinational corporate enterprises, exert extreme influence to enforce
conforming behaviors. From that, despotism looms menacingly over
society.
From the tyranny of over the “majority”, which in modern America is
due partly to elitist corporate-government collusions, “normalcy” rules
by imposition of herded beliefs, opinions, and related emotional
machinations. The intolerance for deviations, the persecutions by way
of “political correctness” and associated juvenile foolishness endanger
the viability of the republic. Pressuring the masses, the vast
infotainment industry, including opinionating pundits, social media
platforms and their techno-conglomerate ownerships, scare mongering
foments of culture of devolving extinction. Political functionaries,
primarily at the national level, scamper to conform to the treachery of
the smug piety of the new “robber barons”.
At this juncture and of recent social media conjecture, the “robber
barons” appear out of history. A century ago, a president railed against
the money grubbing wealthy elitists who exploited the resources of the
U.S. In addition, to that end, a basic description unfolded.
Essentially, the robber baron is the wealthy who place themselves above
the law and endeavor by whatever means to take illicit advantage of
others. A pejorative term, the criticism suggests powerful and
influential people, through various corporate configurations, scheme to
ensure their wealth by less than honorable means. Of the 19th century
era, industrialists and financiers made huge profits by dishonest
business practices and oppressing workers at every opportunity to
maximize profit. Everything from banking to oil, agriculture to
textiles, were subjugated to every extent possible. For some
researchers, speculations suggest the onset of the “power elite” gave
rise to atmosphere of commerce that encouraged organized crime to
flourish.
Given the affinity between corporate collusions and criminal
activity, the salaciously selfish desire for wealth accumulation
replicates in a multiplicity of modern examples. As such, financial
empires amassed extraordinary fortunes then as they do now. Disparity
between rich and poor continues in spite of mainstream psychobabble
regarding the so-called American Dream. Now, enter the mystical “mind”
flirtation with time travel. Climb into the time machine flash back to
the 19th and observe the antics of the robber barons. After enough
disgust with the “privileged few”, flash forward to the 21st century.
Seemingly, not much changes with human nature. Fascinating science
fiction movies provide entertaining adventure for such theoretical
prospects. In the post-modern era of vast fortunes proliferating in the
“info-age”, with innovations in telecommunications, extraordinary wealth
gives a few exceptional power and dominion over others. As described by
some media sources, “big tech” is likely the renewed human expression
of modern-day robber barons. Sleight of hand and misdirection continue
the criminality.
While exceptionality applies in most cases, the focus becomes that of
assessing the most powerful among us, and what is going on behind the
curtain. As some pursue prosocial engagement in a diversity of consumer
consumptive enterprises, others prefer the enrichment of themselves at
the expense of others. In the techno-world, some criminals hide behind a
computer screen. Likewise, some have come to own very large global
social media networks and wield exceptional influence over public policy
making. From economic entrepreneurs to political entrepreneurs, the
self-serving interests of various corporate factions amatively invited
their “god-like” worship. By presupposed “divine right of kings”, an
American aristocracy rises.
Be obedient, submit to the subservience of consumptive enslavement,
do what you are told do, conform to the consensus of the rules, and you
shall be rewarded with being kept in your place. For the new robber
barons of the techno-monopolies, dictation as to the deceptions of cause
and effect, contrived reality and manufactured morality, fallacies over
facts and psychobabble theology, subsistence in in the narrow framework
of shallow conformity. For the valiant non-conformist, the rebel with
an honorable cause, the resistance fighter who fights for uniqueness,
his or her valor is met by the lash of tyrannical retribution. Of things
seen as mandates by pretentious authoritarian rule, for the “greater
good” masquerade as martial law for the whims of the more powerfully
entrenched. Whips, spankings and bondage in some metaphorical sleight of
hand, reflect the infantile retribution from self-appointed divinities.
For the wizards of the cyber-land, behind the virtual iron curtain
there stands, the minions of “thought control”.
For the impotence of their conceited potency, the limp shortcomings
of imaginative creativity, the power to banish, shame and mock
disagreeable disputations assert the hollowness of their ideologies.
Children as grownups, immature and self-righteous, with powerful
telecommunications wealth, ascend as overlords of social media and
infotainment globalization. Likewise, a host of guru worshipped
celebrities crowd around the glow of their needy self-validation. By the
bloated gush of exaggerated importance and magnification of conformity,
selfie reflected importance fixates upon the dullness sameness of
over-rated egos. By every effort at censoring dissent, disagreement and
oppositional discourse, a stupidity of conformity fosters the darkness
maladaptive inflictions. Deadened, the human spirit falls to the
degradation of innovative inspiration to excel beyond the commonality of
the herded collective. For a true calling to nonconformity, or a mature
sense of differentiation is of valued essence individuality.
The cowardice of censorship, by whatever impotence of self-doubt, or
narrowmindedness of personal immaturity, provokes the deadly consequence
for authoritarian oppressions. For most who do not understand the
depths of intense personal transformation, the superficial assertion of
“non-conformity” is another form of conforming masquerade. Yet, the true
fighter for freedom of individual exceptionality maturely self-evolves
to a higher understanding. For the piercing painfulness of formative
anonymity, to the quest for ascendency of self-realization,
individuation seeks the paths less crowded by others. With persistent
aggressive pursuit of passion, in the creative genres of fantasy to
fruition, the individuality of independence cannot be bound by barriers
of jealous animosity. Cowardice of censorship labors to thwart
expressive bravery.
In the hideously grotesque manifestations of intentional suppression
of free exercise of thought to social interaction, the willful deceivers
maximize the adverse capacity for deception. for the acts of deliberate
betrayal and treason, many re-create the world in their image. For
people, regardless of actual or perceived status in socio-economic
ranking, the ability to deceive is extraordinary. Self-deception, as
regards the historic existential assertion of philosophers long gone,
ensures every effort to promote desirable admiration of oneself. Once in
powerful and influential positions, where politicians, pundits and
gurus of wealth pontificate their reshaping of everyone else’s world
view, the blustering cowardice infringes on others. From this,
censorship becomes a weapon in the hands of techno-corporate oligarchs,
political aristocracies and over-rated media talking heads. Some wonder
why anyone would give any credence to a tube-shaped talking head.
That is, the face and upper torso one sees, but does not necessarily
observe, in the commercial ventures of alleged news reporting. From the
“plasma tube of plenty”, there unfolds the seemingly two-dimensional
24/7 non-stop dystopic babble of shallow infantile perspectives.
Expensively attired, coiffed to perfection, blushed by the brush of
makeup, form fitted to fabrication of the infotainment perpetrations of
contrived consensus. Robotic poster children for a time of discord and
dissent, the “tele-evangelists” of mystical telecommunications adulate
upon self-righteous condescension. Hiding cleverly the defects of
humanistic shortcomings, the cowardice of censorship trespasses easily
upon the boundaries of others. For all the window-dressing, the
coiffured fabrication of upscale fabrics, the emptiness of their sad
defects and flaws sometimes, but very elusively, slips through a crack
or tear in the costumes of duplicity.
As a point of hilarity to the discouraging advent of the weaponized
information, and bullying commercial materialization of thinking
processes, would be fascinating to see everyone completely naked. Nude,
bare, in the buff and brazenly exotic media expressions depict people as
their skin really depicts them. Nothing to hide, no fake coverings to
shield the dishonesty, yet instead, the test of bare-naked exhibition.
Of course, that will never be the case, while nudity is an act of
self-revolution, awareness of selflessness, etc. for a few valiant
souls, bareness scares most people. In a culture where oppressions have
many faces, and hypocrisy knows many places, acts of freedom are herded
to the commonality of trickery, ruse and bogus pretenses. In a realm of
the cowardice of censorship, many fear the reality of truth and
confrontation with the necessity to grow up and act like adults. Over
the expanse of many cultures, and from past to present, historical
cautions mock the critics who find flaws in others but ignore their own.
In the cowardice of censorship, the insidious malevolence to inflict
certain viewpoints as the norm, and conspire to suppress all others, the
emphasis on spineless tyranny cannot be overstated. It hastens the
downfall of humanity and summons the regressive degradations of eventual
extinction. Abnormality by intentional perpetration asserts the
condescending ramifications of maladaptive assumptions as to how others
should behave. To conform to a preconceived mode of behavior, those with
power and influence, wealth and control, assume a spectrum of
behavioral specifications inflicted upon the majority. While arguments
consume certain periods and particular cultural characteristics, along
with generational diversity, the societal configuration of a democratic
republic specifies constitutional for extraordinary individual liberty.
As to that, abnormality in the diversification of mainstream
interactivity enriches the prospects for communal ascendancy to higher
realms of enlightened maturation.
Yet, the collectivist ideologies of normalcy condemn the
individuation of creativity among the individuals who differ with the
status quo. As such, in modern times, to be among the so-called normal
is to forsake the transforming differentiation of self-evolution. For
the fear of being outside the crowd, the herded mentality of sameness
voluntarily surrenders to subservience. Suppression of dissent in any
form, restriction for rebellion in artistic endeavors against “community
guidelines”, and squashing alternative viewpoints cries loudly the
“cow-herding” of cowardly authoritarianism. To accept the dogmas of
commonality, forgetting the time worn echoes of historical repressions,
the many embrace the maladaptive consistency of sameness. Conformity to
the malicious intentions of “political correctness”, for the power and
control over others by those who’s “lives matter” and others do not,
inflicts the pains and sufferings of dying culture. The ease and
potential terror of simplistic thinking in controlling ideas expresses
human evil.
While discourse considers the viability of some compromise for a
modicum of common interests, as reflected in a republic’s constitutional
precautions, exceptionality for the prospects of abnormality is vital.
The value of conformity depends heavily upon the value of freedoms by
which personal liberation assures continued individual transformation.
Of that, allowances for non-conformity invites creativity, innovation
and individualistic maturation. Yet, most are not in a process of
profound maturation, and remain in a fixation at a prior time and place
of narcissistic infantilism. As a result, children in adult bodies gain
powerful placement, from the corporate realms of techno-empires, to the
political arenas of “American aristocracy. From those elitist
collectivist wealthy enclaves, there is tyranny in the cowardice of
censorship.
