🚨 Unearthed: Mr David Irving’s 1990s speech exposing the Katyn Massacre cover-up at Nuremberg and the Orwellian French laws silencing historians. He was fined for speaking the truth in his own home. Watch and decide for yourself.
H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points:
1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty."
2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness."
3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal."
4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken.
5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists.
6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest."
7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye."
8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it."
9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect...
10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack."
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If certain forces were to manufacture a pop culture figure who would most efficiently keep people from asking the most important questions - or arriving at the most reasonable suspicions based on the totality of our context picture - I suspect it'd be an exacting duplicate of Lex
Lex Fridman is a fascinating case study - and a great litmus test of a person's judgment, in a sense..
On the surface, he's the most soft, kindly, unoffensive baby-faced fellow, with the most impressive list of guests, some of whom are legitimately fascinating and worthwhile listens.
But watch closely as to the net-effects of this 'can't we all just get along and love one another' attitude and approach, and how it manifests:
He called Epstein 'just some rich guy', completely denying any larger conspiracy, even the patently obvious m05sad connections.
He repeatedly (if indirectly) defends many of the worst people on earth, seemingly denying even the possibility of corruption, conspiracy, or any happenings that are readily visible at a superficial glance.
He did more effective damage control for big pharma than perhaps anyone else in the public sphere, bringing several of these execs on and allowing them to state their case in full, relatively unchallenged and uninterrupted.
I could go on citing enough examples like this to fill a novel..
Leaving aside his intelligence/Israeli connections for a moment, and his out-of-nowhere rise to extreme prominence (reminiscent of 'h3h3' and others) practically overnight - consider for a moment that the net-effect of his approach is to both provide a platform for some of the most shamelessly and brazenly corrupt individuals and institutions in the world, while disarming the audience, and then working to reorient their framework into one of oblivious and naive trust. "Let's just give everyone the benefit of the doubt - even if they've proven time and time again to not deserve it, and the costs of being wrong here are astronomical, lets just be kind!"
By kind, he seems to mean 'permissive', 'passive'.. 'unthinking' and 'uncritical'.
For the longest time I wanted to like the guy, the nice-guy routine is superficially convincing.. yet I'd suggest it's figures like this that most powerfully work to keep us from reacting in a healthy and natural way to men like Gates, Soros, jab manufacturers, Epstein/Maxwell.
It's almost like that's his very role.
Though, if true, this would be something of a conspiracy - and Lex makes it clear that these essentially don't exist.
Any politician that promises to help silence their own population at the behest of a foreign people should be run out of office immediately - at bare minimum.
Imagine one day finding even a single prominent politician who felt as energetic about serving their population as they are about serving Israel and protecting world Jewry and the Jewish diaspora..
I can't stand this man.
I started working on this project sometime early in law school. I finally finished and published this month.
It is in four parts. Very in-depth on the matter.
https://t.co/pvRODvVc3Z
https://t.co/u5wg9WcFWK
https://t.co/LX0NEhBjSY
https://t.co/nG56TKsOGg