Liberty Relearned

We've just passed the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  While both the left and the right have condemned the invasion, and both support Ukraine, the two camps do so for different reasons. The left looks at Russia as a threat to their globalist agenda, while the right looks at it as a threat to peace in the West and fear an alliance sleepwalking into WWIII.   #ukraine...

From the LR Podcast, S2E41... While we were all busy talking about balloons, our government, namely our Transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg was busy not doing much at all about a recent rail disaster in Ohio, or ensuring our railways are kept safe and operable. Remember when we spent what seemed at the time, a lot of money on “shovel ready” projects under President Obama? It looks like a tril...

So, here we are, the third podcast in a row and Biden's #Balloongate is still news.  After not shooting down an obvious Chinese spy balloon until it presumably completed its espionage mission, now our government might be shooting down weather balloons launched by hobbyists.   An article in AvationWeek.com presents compelling evidence that this was indeed the case with at least one of the...

From LR Podcast S2E40... The State of the Union was just full of lies, half-truths and falsifications.  It's probably for an honesty standpoint, the worst State of the Union you've ever heard.  This includes ones from Bill Clinton and former President Obama.  What he and the Democrats have decided to do is find "solutions" to problems that they themselves created, like inflation. &n...

The State of the Union was just full of lies, half-truths and falsifications.  It's probably for an honesty standpoint, the worst State of the Union you've ever heard.  This includes ones from Bill Clinton and former President Obama.  What he and the Democrats have decided to do is find "solutions" to problems that they themselves created, like inflation.  Here's one quote from...

This past week, the US had an uninvited guest, a Chinese spy balloon that entered and stated in US airspace for about a week before finally being shot down off the coast of the Carolinas.  Before being shot down, it made its way over or near many US military installations as described in an article by the Gateway Pundit .  What's worse, surveillance may not have been its only purpose. &n...

This past week, the US had an uninvited guest, a Chinese spy balloon that entered and stated in US airspace for about a week before finally being shot down off the coast of the Carolinas.  Before being shot down, it made its way over or near many US military installations as described in an article by the Gateway Pundit .  What's worse, surveillance may not have been its only purpose. &n...

One major thing going on in the world this January is the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF's preoccupation continues to be with the climate change and engaging in climate change alarmism. Going through their website, there is a lot of discussion this year about the effects of inflation, inflation that WEF backed policies helped to create. Their conclusion is tha...

There are currently two different news stories that we need to talk about this week.  The first is the Biden document scandal.  This is at once a Joe Biden and a Hunter Biden scandal.  Classified documents continue to turn up at Biden places of work and home.  Why were they there?  What's in them?  We know at the very least that Hunter had access to them, as they were...

Stop me if you've heard this one before...  "A U.S. president has been found to be keeping classified documents at his place of residence..."  No, we're not taking about President Trump, we're talking about President Biden. Journalist, Sharyl Attkisson wrote an article entitled:  Chronology of President Biden's classified document saga in which she gives a timeline of the event...

Stop me if you've heard this one before...  "A U.S. president has been found to be keeping classified documents at his place of residence..."  No, we're not taking about President Trump, we're talking about President Biden. Journalist, Sharyl Attkisson wrote an article entitled:  Chronology of President Biden's classified document saga in which she gives a timeline of the event...

The Dystopic Journal starts the year with a new book. It's an entertaining book of dystopic fiction written by comedian Michael Loftus entitled: Neither Stunning nor Brave. It's a look into the not-too-distant future where the Left's cancel culture, ESG scores, and social justice have run roughshod over society and are now making the story's protagonist, Avery's life a living hell. He's on the run...

The Dystopic Journal starts the year with a new book .  It's an entertaining book of dystopic fiction written by comedian Michael Loftus entitled:   Neither Stunning nor Brave.   It's a look into the not-too-distant future where the Left's cancel culture, ESG scores, and social justice have run roughshod over society and are now making the story's protagonist, Avery's life a living...

The Left giving up on corrupting children 2023 will see the continuation of drag queen story hour, and more confusing children about gender Inflation dropping below 5% Congress just approved $1.7 trillion, much of it going to the political allies of the Democrats, so yeah, continued inflation as the government continues to print more money to bribe the people and pay off special interest groups. A...

The Left giving up on corrupting children 2023 will see the continuation of drag queen story hour, and more confusing children about gender Inflation dropping below 5% Congress just approved $1.7 trillion, much of it going to the political allies of the Democrats, so yeah, continued inflation as the government continues to print more money to bribe the people and pay off special interest groups. A...

How we reenact the Nativity each year at Christmastime without even realizing it. “In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great j...

How we reenact the Nativity each year at Christmastime without even realizing it. “ In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for al...

A deeply immoral, anti-human, point of view... Climate alarmism is bad enough, but some thought leaders who drive it, who are its philosophical torchbearers, have an even more troubling view of humanity that far exceeds the usual misanthropy you might expect from its proponents. This quote comes from a review of: The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben, published in the Los Angeles Times. Written by D...

A deeply immoral, anti-human, point of view... Climate alarmism is bad enough, but some thought leaders who drive it, who are its philosophical torchbearers, have an even more troubling view of humanity that far exceeds the usual misanthropy you might expect from its proponents. This quote comes from a review of: The End of Nature , by Bill McKibben, published in the Los Angeles Times. Written by...

According to Mattias Desmet in his book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, there are four conditions needed for a large-scale mass formation:  1. Generalized loneliness 2.  Lack of meaning of life 3. “Free-floating anxiety and psychological unease.”   4.  A lot of free-floating aggression.  Leftism as a mass-formation depends on all four of these conditions being met...

This is a follow-up to the last episode: The Road to Totalitarianism. Here, I emphasize how the Left's totalitarian mass formation is akin to religion, with a distinct dogma, priests, prophets, and the persecution of heretics. Totalitarian systems call on their members to defer reason and judgment in crucial areas to an expert class. Those swept up in the mass formation are convinced to place thei...

This episode builds upon the topics discussed in the most recent episode of the Dystopic Journal that speak of the relationship between science and totalitarianism: Even while people take to the streets in China to protest their government's draconian zero-COVID measures, people in the West celebrate and welcome never ending COVID measures restricting personal freedom. In the East the Chinese, con...

We further our discussion about The Psychology of Totalitarianism, by Mattias Desmet. It his book, Desmet talks about how in a totalitarian society, religion is replaced by science, and how experts and technocrats become the new priesthood. People caught up in the totalitarian mass formation eagerly subordinate their free will to that of the expert class. On this, he writes: “Totalitarianism is th...

Currently in China, people have take to the streets to protests their government's draconian anti-COVID measures.  According to an article in Just the News, people throughout China are protesting the authoritarian measures and calling for their leader, Xi Jinping to step down.  Even a people programmed to follow authority since birth have reached their limits and have begun to speak out....

How does mass formation perpetuate totalitarian regimes? “In substance, the totalitarian leader is nothing more nor less than the functionary of the masses he leads; he is not a power-hungry individual imposing a tyrannical and arbitrary will upon his subjects. Being a mere functionary, he can be replaced at any time, and he depends just as much on the masses he embodies as the masses depend upon...