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America's Future
LadyVal
 May 06 2025 at 06:10 pm
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Some people believe that the destruction of monuments commemorating American history – whether it be related to the former Confederacy or of those American figures who offend today’s WOKE culture because of their actions and/or life situations – i.e. slaveowners or those who made war upon America’s “indigenous peoples” – affects only a relatively few pieces of stone and bronze! But vandalism is vandalism even when supported, condoned and committed by the State. It is never a sign of civilization. It must be remembered, however, once all the monuments are gone, all that remains to educate the people about that history are the books. Today’s other means of communication that provide those facts are easily falsified and even removed from public view as we can see in the battles of the internet platforms. As a result, only the written word remains. But this fact should be of little comfort to us when we see the results of a civilization abandoned and the works of man fall into the hands of mindless brutes who despise what civilized men once held dear. To begin with, we find ourselves in the hands of those who can fulfill Orwell’s promised world of 1984 using our present technology. When Orwell wrote the sentiment below, he had no idea how soon mankind would achieve the ability to do what he had predicted: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” We know that we can produce lies that cannot be separated from truth by virtue of our current digital technology. We are even reproducing life itself, possibly to our own destruction. But even if we can control what we create, it is possible today to do just what Orwell’s protagonist Winston did in his daily job in Big Brother’s state, that is to go back into the past and change what was into what is now desired. The only true record is that which remains placed on paper and published when the truth of history and of all other things was desired and demanded. But because this means of communication is physical, it can also be destroyed and once destroyed, it cannot simply be recalled into existence. There is no “save” key for the written word. There will come a time when we will reach a point of no return; when the ability to recall the actual past is no more; that is, when those who can remember at least some of “what really happened!” have gone to their graves! At that point, none of our technology will be of use because those “in charge” will have removed that information beyond the reach of those who are not “in charge!” Only the written word – if it survives! – will be available to educate mankind in the future. Today, many rest in the assurance that all knowledge is still available to those who seek it, but we are foolish to take comfort in that belief! Why? Because knowledge is power and those who hold power at any time in history have no desire to share that condition. The old saw, “ignorance is bliss” has more than one meaning. It means bliss for the ignorant because they cannot see the disaster before them, but it also means bliss for those in power for it means that they do not have to fear being held accountable by those over whom they rule. Thus, knowledge is deliberately destroyed either by the ignorant who do not understand its power or by the knowledgeable who do! Indeed, this is one reason that our “leaders” seek to cultivate ignorance and propagate the rise of the benighted for such are easily ruled as long as their physical needs and desires are met. This is an ancient means of governance that we see in the Roman use of “bread and circuses” to keep the mindless populace quiescent. But such governing strategies cannot be hid! Once a people lose the desire to be informed, once they throw off the armor of intellect and knowledge, the results become immediately apparent to all – and the culture can no longer be considered worthy of the approval of other cultures more intelligent and civilized than themselves. Behold some of the libraries of an American city once called the Paris of the Middle West—Detroit! Photographs of the ruined remnants of these temples of knowledge make clear the cost of our failure to maintain civilization itself. This vandalism is the lethal cost of championing falsehood in the name of political correctness, social justice and all the other manifestations of today’s madness. How long before all the material works of Western Civilization are reduced to the present sad and sorry state? And when that happens, who will restore what we in our foolishness have allowed to be destroyed? Is this, indeed, America’s future?
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