Saturday, December 21, 2024

The New Scientific Priesthood Wants Complete Control of What We Are Told - Dr David McGrogan

The result is not just suppression of speech through a ‘censorship industrial complex’ but a suppression of knowledge 
We are all familiar by now with the various efforts that are underway to govern what we are allowed to say, and share, online. 
But this is a much bigger problem than is commonly perceived – it goes far beyond the ‘mere’ suppression of misinformation or disinformation, as misguided and dangerous as that effort is...
Increasingly, those who govern us simply take the view that it would be better if we had the minimal necessary supply of curated information, carefully vetted by experts, in order that we should arrive at the decisions they deem to be appropriate...
 As I have argued before, we are governed, more and more, by a form of politics that has greater in common with the medieval pastorate than 19th or 20th century liberal democracy – a sort of atheist theocracy rooted in a claim to have sole possession of the knowledge not of what is true or false so much as what is right and wrong...

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