I live in Canada, a country once deemed a desirable place of rational people and reasonable laws. That was then, this is now. It seems federal, provincial and even municipal governments are enacting new legislation more rapidly than any time in my memory or knowledge.
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Why the haste?
Were we that broken and in peril that we needed extreme redirection in an imminent fashion?
According to most international report cards over the last few decades, Canada has been one of the top places to live and be free again and again. Only recently have we had a slide in these reports. Coincidently, of course, it coincides with the flurry of new laws and regulations. It must just be mere correlation… or is it?
The thing is these new regulations are quite drastic in their impact. Bills have been pushed that affect online news, gun regulations, streaming services, medical assistance in dying, decriminalization of hard drugs, access to natural supplements and herbs and more. There is a lot of nuance to cover with each one to break through the government’s spin and understand the ramifications of these. I’m not going to get into it here.
It is sufficient to state that regulations - and perhaps even more so, their enforcement - have become absurd. When I cannot see the links of news shared on social media or share these pieces, it results in an ominous Orwellian shiver.
I recognize the social media platforms have decided to not kowtow to the government’s declaration that they must pay for allowing news to be shared but the feds knew this would be the result and moved on it anyway. It is a bit of a battle of free market versus state controlled enterprise. By no means am I a fanboy of Big Tech’s behavior (or their CEOs) but our political leadership continues to slide society further down the road of authoritarian control and more Big Gov.
Perhaps even more absurd is the Ontario College of Psychologists demanding Jordan Peterson, a licensed psychologist and professor, submit to social media re-education for his expressed political views. This is an affront to the constitutional right of freedom of speech and sits beyond his professional duties as it was not clinical in nature. If one zooms out and consider this, it is also very Orwellian in its approach.
This is not just a Canadian issue. Government overreach, absurdity and the increasing lack of basic common sense seems to be expanding with an exponential rate. Whether it be the double standards associated with which cause deserves billions while others get scraps, the alteration of language to inadequately blur biological distinctions, or the return of pandemic measures that have been shown to be both ineffective and unsafe, our once reasonable society seems to have lost the plot.
Well, I don’t care what they are selling. I’m not buying it. Rather, the rise of absurdity, and the general tolerance for it, shows me that we are in an age of societal decay. Objective truth has been hijacked and common sense has gone missing. The Orwellian inversion is prolific. What was once the domain of our declared enemies and their inhumane ways, now seems right at home in the West.
But that shouldn’t be a surprise for students of history and those who are not easily indoctrinated by more subtle propaganda. After all, they told us it was coming.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
We have arrived at the tail end of a long and insidious ploy that has fermented inside our walls under the design of those believed to be upholding our cultural values. All that we were told was good as children is basically akin to that of what we were told was bad. Those 1980’s movies about USSR bad and America good were as agenda driven as the stuff delivered to the people of the Soviet Union. They primed us to feel taken care of and allegiant to our security forces - the CIA, the FBI, the NSA et al. The very forces that have repeatedly perpetrated acts of atrocity on people across the globe and in our own home.
When we realize we have been cheering the wolf guarding our henhouse, what do we do next?
I am reflecting on the permission that recognition of absurdity affords us. If we clearly recognize that logic and reason are in a dysfunctional state, does it not free us from the claims made without them?
When the authorities tell us to mask up, booster more, stay at home, etc. and we know it is all based on lies, mis-/dis-information, incompetence, negligence, and corruption, are we not compelled to ignore these flags of ridiculousness?
If we don’t, are we giving them validity? Are we giving consent?
I do not consent to nonsensical ideas striving to grip the material reality of my life.
Do you?
I totally agree with what you said. Well done. We are all hearing nothing but lies, or in the very least, blind support for the government narrative in our mainstream media. Health issues possibly due to the jabs are not even being investigated and the media is silent. The authorities don't want to know the truth, because they are clearly bought and are not on our side. They should be, so why aren't they? We have to kick them out at the next election, but, in the meantime, we need to make our voices heard clearly and loudly. This is not the time to cower away in a hole and stay silent.