Mass mind closure

“If people don’t want to listen to what they don’t want to hear, there is no more impregnable fortress on the planet than a closed mind”.

In this 30 minute interview, Peter Hitchens explores the timeline of the collapse of classical liberal thought from 1914 to the Covid lockdowns of today.

 

18 Replies to “Mass mind closure”

  1. Depressing as it is, this really should be recommended viewing. Hitchens hits every note.
    Totally agree with him as well on the 60’s cultural revolution being a defining moment. I remember quite clearly as a boy 13 yrs of age, recognizing how weirdly wrong it was for TIME magazine to glowingly declare the Woodstock music festival as a collection of “electric warriors” while 8000 miles away, 100 young American men lost their lives in Vietnam the very same weekend. It just didn’t sit right with me and something seemed wrong about it all.
    Well, something was wrong alright.

    Well done Dennis.

    1. “….TIME magazine to glowingly declare the Woodstock music festival as a collection of “electric warriors”
      and remember all the glowing reports from Time and Life magazines about the ‘new freedom’ we were all discovering by ‘Turning on, tuning in, dropping out’ . What young boy wouldn’t be seduced by those ideas of free love, no commitment and freedom from responsibility? By the time the Woodstock movie came out we all wanted to be hippies.

  2. He is Christopher Hitchen’s brother.
    Cut from the same cloth.
    Thanks, Dennis.

    1. Hitch, despite his leftist tendencies, was a free-thinking gem, as well. May he RIP. Gosh, despite being a redneck hillbilly by today’s standards, I sure do admire a lot of ‘leftist’ free-thinking writers. It used to be a thing, you know…..!

  3. There are some problems though.
    For those that need to hear it, it will remain unknown.
    For those that hear this and are opposed, it will have no effect, brainwashing very strong.
    Those that understand and support it are already there, while important, they already know.

    The media cartel will take care of that.
    This is where the north America is today.

    1. Or, in modern parlence, windmills of your mind. Originally a French song but now turned into a gospel of the establishment.

      Sorry, mixed a few metaphores there.

  4. Freedom of speech was just a tool to get rid of Christian blasphemy laws. It was never intended to govern society permanently.

    Now “conservatives” want to preserve it.

    1. Funny how this “tool to get rid of Christian blasphemy laws” dates back to the fifth century before Christ….. It was first discussed and endorsed as a necessary principle in Ancient Greece.

      You might want to check your sources.

  5. Interesting that he raises the ban on Capital Punishment…. and i agree with his analysis.

    A connection that he doesn’t mention is that, shortly after the ban on capital punishment, a policeman was murdered and there was strong public pressure to have the death penalty reinstated. The response of the Government was to institute one of the first pieces of widespread gun-control. It did not affect the class of weapons used the murder and would have had no probability in preventing that murder – or any others. Gun-crime in Britain in that period was amongst the lowest in the world – but it served as a distraction and permitted the Government to pretend that it was “responding”.

    Cynical and self-serving.

  6. He mirrors the sentiment of most people on this site and like most of us, he doesn’t really speak the same language as most of what passes for the remnants of western civilization today. Most would have us censored rather than take the time to consider such concepts as liberty. He has mapped out our decline well. Most pertinent was the affirmation of the (Marxist) long march through the institutions and the intellectual wreckage in the aftermath.

  7. Well that was very good; very glum as well. Good to see that someone agrees with me.

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