Freedom of speech...? — Scott Adams
Channel: The Weresheepdog
Date: 2018-12-25

Scott Adams, creator of the famous Dilbert cartoons, has some interesting and unusual thoughts about freedom of expression. I had been considering those too, since I started studying about persuasion, hipnosis and advertising. He only talks about rap "music", but I would like to expand it a little: if we come to understand that a) persuasion works, b) we can't resist persuasion because even if we  KNOW that some technique is being used in us it still works; c) that whenever seeing a movie, listening a music or otherwise appreciating any kind of art we are at an stage of semi-hipnosis, that makes us more open to suggestion...  Then what to do with the "chattering elites" (Gramsci's term for the press, the academy and the showbiz) lying and propagandizing all the time, making people anxious, depressed, feeling angst, fear, resentment, anger, envy etc. not to talk  about the almost palpable anti-human, anti-civilizational feelings that we can observe being implanted in the Western Civilization right now: people acting like humanity is a virus that should be eradicated...

We can't or shouldn't regulate freedom of expression and the press because it is necessary for the development of a society and the individuals that compose it... And on the other hand if those freedoms are total then inevitably corrupt, evil people will use those very freedoms, paradoxically, to END ALL FREEDOMS. 

As John Adams famously wrote, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.". So what to do when people become immoral? Because I believe it's clear for anyone that artists, journalists and many professors nowadays are definitively evil, thinking only about themselves, their own immediate pleasure and above all searching for power. That's because most of the positions in those "chattering elites" were taken by assault as per Gramsci's advice. And from Rousseau's advice before him: the villains are now the only ones with a microphone. So what is the solution to that?

This excerpt has been extracted from one of Scott's Periscope lives. The full video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhVHZOfXexw&t=244s

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