The time many people will have to grasp the insanity of the Russian situation may be measured in microseconds.
What they fear the most is you, thinking for yourself. Within those three words are two implicit concepts. Thinking is the fundamental essential for human existence. It can be hard work, but nobody will disparage it on that basis. Attacks on thought, and there have been many, tend to be more subtle.
The for yourself is more problematic. For one thing, it sounds selfish. Nowadays you can present yourself as damn near any kind of humanitarian, even when you’re carrying all sorts of obviously hypocritical baggage, and you’ll go unchallenged. State that your first concern is your own welfare, not the common good or the public interest, and most people will mentally consign you to the ninth circle of hell. Sixty-five years after publication, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s tribute to the self-interested mind, is still denounced. Soon it will be banned in those jurisdictions that have not already done so.
Can’t, won’t reason with an idiot…
map missing Finland and Sweden…….more reasons!
Why was an “update” required to tell readers that the Paul Pelosi article was “satire?” (Comments are now turned off.) The author who wrote the linked article obviously intended it to be read as reality by the gullible.