The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Minitrue

Colombia to set up truth commission

What do we know about coercive rituals of public confession and reconciliation?

What do we know about official truth?

We know the left loves both.

We know the left agrees with the Holy Office that error has no rights and those who publicly espouse it should be silenced, made to recant, and punished, with or without public ceremonies of shame or reconciliation, as the occasion demands.

It used to be only the radical left, the so-called "hard" left, that went in for that, the rest being liberals committed to the Enlightenment values of freedom of speech and of the press.

Freedom from censorship of ideas or political controversy, that is, not from suppression of pornography, obscenity, or even mere profanity.

In Orwell's 1984, of course, error again has no rights.

For that matter, neither does truth, if politically inconvenient.

But morals censorship has been abolished to make way for the political neutering of the masses with abundant prolefeed.

Imagine that.

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